US Patent Issued to AGC on July 7 for "Vehicle window glass" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,397, issued on July 7, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle window glass" was invented by Shoichi Takeuchi (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Nobuoka (Tokyo), Masahiro Hachiro (Tokyo), Hideaki Shoji (Tokyo), Toshiki Sayama (Tokyo) and Yusuke Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A window glass for a vehicle including a glass plate, a light shielding layer on the glass plate and a planar antenna including a planar conductor with a hollowed-out portion with at least one hole, wherein, when a region including the light shielding layer is assumed as a light shielding region; and a region including no light shielding layer is assumed as a transmi...