US Patent Issued to GENTEX on Oct. 14 for "Electro-optic element with integrated capacitive touch screen functionality" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,064, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Electro-optic element with integrated capacitive touch screen functionality" was invented by Robert R. Turnbull (Holland, Mich.) and Xiaoxu Niu (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic element including: (i) an electrochromic medium; (a) a first electro-optic conductive layer that is substantially transparent disposed to one side of the electrochromic medium; (b) a second electro-optic conductive layer disposed to another side of the electrochromic medium; (c) a capacitive touchscreen conductive layer disposed on an opposite side of the fir...