ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,340, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAGE Electrochromics Inc. (Faribault, Minn.).

"Resistivity control of coated glass units for uniformity improvement" was invented by Yan Wang (Lakeville, Minn.), Frank McGrogan (Faribault, Minn.), Bolei Di (Woodbury, Minn.) and Yigang Wang (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a system for manufacturing a device having a coated transparent substrate is provided. The method includes providing the device having a transparent substrate. The method also includes coating the transparent substrate with a first transparent conductive oxide (TCO) layer in accordance...