ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,481, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Laminated glass" was invented by Kazuki Chiba (Tokyo), Hisashi Ogawa (Tokyo) and Hisashi Asaoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a windshield on which an information acquisition device that acquires information from outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged, the windshield including: an outer glass plate; an inner glass plate; an interlayer film arranged between the outer glass plate and the inner glass plate; and a mask layer laminated on at least one of a surface on a vehicle interior side of the...