ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,132, issued on July 7, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Vibration device and sound insulation device" was invented by Jun Akiyama (Tokyo), Kento Sakurai (Tokyo), Daisuke Uchida (Tokyo) and Ken Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration device includes: a glass vibration plate including a plurality of glass plates being laminated, and a solid-phase intermediate layer between at least a pair of the glass plates among the glass plates; a vibrator fixed to the glass vibration plate and configured to vibrate the glass vibration plate, in which the glass vibration plate includes a temperature adjustment unit configured to ad...