ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,349, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).
"Glass plate with electric heating wire" was invented by Shunsuke Sadakane (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass plate with an electric heating wire includes a glass plate having an information acquisition area through which information outside a vehicle is acquired by an information acquisition apparatus; and an electric heating wire provided in the information acquisition area. When the glass plate is mounted to a vehicle body in an inclined state, the information acquisition area has a rectangular shape viewed from a direction of an optical axis of the information acq...