US Patent Issued to LuxWall on Sept. 9 for "Vacuum insulated panel with passivation layer" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,654, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LuxWall Inc. (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

"Vacuum insulated panel with passivation layer" was invented by Scott V. Thomsen (Glen Arbor, Mich.), Christian Bischoff (Maumee, Ohio) and Phil Lingle (Temperance, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum insulating panel includes first and second substrates (e.g., glass substrates), a hermetic edge seal, a pump-out port, and spacers sandwiched between at least the two substrates. The gap between the substrates may be at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure to provide insulating properties. The vacuum insulating panel may include at least one passiva...