ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,607, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Vidrio Plano de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Nuevo Leon, Mexico).

"Coating with solar control properties for a glass substrate" was invented by Jose Luis Tavares Cortes (Nuevo Leon, Mexico), Jose Guadalupe Cid-Aguilar (Nuevo Leon, Mexico), Arturo Si Ming Lamshing Tai (Nuevo Leon, Mexico), Edgar Valverde-Chong (Tlalpan, Mexico) and Jorge Sanchez-Gonzalez (Nuevo Leon, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a glass substrate including a stack of coating layers having control properties, in which stack comprises at least one niobium metal layer located between a layer of a dielectri...