ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,674, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Windshield" was invented by Kazuki Chiba (Tokyo), Hisashi Ogawa (Tokyo), Hisashi Asaoka (Tokyo), Kazuhisa Ono (Tokyo) and Yota Yano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a windshield on which an information acquisition device that acquires information from outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light is disposable, the windshield including: a glass plate; and a heating wire that is provided on the glass plate and to which a current is applied. The glass plate includes at least one information acquisition region that f...