ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,239, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Illuminable glazing" was invented by Jefferson Do Rosario (Herzogenrath, Germany), Achim Zeichner (Herzogenrath, Germany), Matthias Mandelartz (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Pierre Sarkissian (Herzogenrath, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glazing assembly includes a light source for generating light which can be coupled into a first pane, an edge region which extends from a pane edge of the first pane over at least 1 mm up to at most 500 mm on one of the surfaces, and to an absorption device for absorbing light which is coupled into the fir...