US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE on Aug. 19 for "Illuminated pane-like glass element having reduced emittance via the lateral edge" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,952, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Illuminated pane-like glass element having reduced emittance via the lateral edge" was invented by Semjon Mooraj (Herzogenrath, Germany), Tobias Nielsen (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Buyin Yu (Herzogenrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminated glass element, including a glass pane with a first surface, a second surface, and a side edge face extending therebetween. The glass pane is equipped with at least one light source, which is suitable for coupling light into the glass pane such that the light propagates in the glass pane, in p...