ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,445, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Glass plate suitable for image display device" was invented by Masahiro Ikadai (Mie, Japan), Shinji Oizumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichi Kiriyama (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Tanoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a glass plate including a main surface having a plurality of minute deformed portions which are recesses or projections, wherein, where an average value of lengths of two sides adjacent to each other of a minimum quadrilateral with four right angles surrounding each minute deformed portion is defined as a dimension, an av...