ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,148, issued on March 11, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method for protecting low-E glass plate, method for producing glass unit 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: "To provide a method for protecting a Low-E glass plate, the method being capable of preventing or inhibiting alteration of Low-E layers. Provided is a Low-E glass plate protection method. The protection method includes a step of applying a protective sheet to a ...