ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,263, issued on July 15, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Method for protecting low-E glass plate, method for producing glass unit, laminate and protective sheet for low-E glass plate" was invented by Yuta Shimazaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Kosuke Yonezaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Hakaru Horiguchi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kunimasa Mishima (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a Low-E glass plate protection method capable of preventing or inhibiting Low-E layer alteration. In the protection method, a protective sheet having a substrate and a PSA layer provided to at least one face of the substrate is applied for ...