ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,617, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Process to make textured glass" was invented by William S. Sweney (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Pilliod (Los Angeles) and Christos Gougoussis (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for texturing substrates (e.g., glass, metal, and the like) and the textured substrates produced using such systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system for texturing a substrate includes a first roller and a second roller. The first roller has a first textured surface. The first textured surface has a root mean square roughness between 40 to 1000 mic...