ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,521, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Near-infrared-shielding material" was invented by Haruko Horiguchi (Mie, Japan) and Shinya Katagiri (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new material efficiently attenuating transmission of near-infrared light is provided. A provided near-infrared-shielding material includes a plurality of flaky particles, wherein each of the plurality of flaky particles includes a flaky substrate and a single-layer film formed on a principal surface of the flaky substrate, and the near-infrared-shielding material has a light reflectance of 40% or more between wav...