US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE on Nov. 11 for "Controllable optical properties and multiple independent switching regions" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,167, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE (Thourotte, France).

"Controllable optical properties and multiple independent switching regions" was invented by Richard Stelzer (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glazing unit having electrically controllable optical properties and multiple independent switching regions includes a composite pane with an electrically controllable functional element and a control unit to control the optical properties of the functional element. The functional element has an active layer having electrically controllable optical properties between a first flat electr...