US Patent Issued to Vitro Flat Glass on July 8 for "Heat-treatable coating having reduced haze" (Pennsylvania, Florida, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,905, issued on July 8, was assigned to Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Cheswick, Pa.).

"Heat-treatable coating having reduced haze" was invented by Jessica Smith (Cheswick, Pa.), Neil Curliss (Salem, Ore.), Maryanne Griffin (Apollo, Pa.) and Martin Bracamonte (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated article includes a substrate with a first surface and a second surface and a functional coating applied over the surface. The functional coating includes a base layer over at least a portion of the substrate; a metallic layer over at least a portion of the base layer; and a top layer over at least a portion of the metallic layer. The b...