ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,735, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Vehicle window with an IR-reflective coating with a discontinuous metallic layer of metal nanocrystals" was invented by Julie Ruff (Aachen, Germany), Sebastian Janzyk (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Jan Hagen (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle window, includes at least one transparent glass pane and an IR-reflective coating on a surface of the glass pane, wherein the IR-reflective coating includes n metallic layers and (n+1) dielectric layer modules, wherein the layer modules are implemented as dielectric layers or layer sequence...