ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,504, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Angled bus bar" was invented by Gordon Edmund Jack (San Jose, Calif.), Anshu Ajit Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.) and Kaustubh Yatindra Nadkarni (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides configurations, methods of use, and methods of fabrication for a bus bar of an optically switchable device. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a substrate and an optically switchable device disposed on a surface of the substrate. The optically switchable device has a perimeter with at least one corner including a first side, a second side, ...