ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,165, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Windshield and windshield manufacturing method" was invented by Kazuaki Oya (Tokyo), Fumiyoshi Kondo (Tokyo) and Shinya Okamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a windshield for an automobile on which an information acquisition device configured to acquire information from the outside of a vehicle by emitting and/or receiving light can be arranged. The windshield includes: a laminated glass including an information acquisition region that is opposite to the information acquisition device and through which the light passes; an...