US Patent Issued to AGC on June 30 for "Glass for vehicles and camera unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,198, issued on June 30, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Glass for vehicles and camera unit" was invented by Tatsuo Nagashima (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yutaka Kitajima (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glass (1) for vehicles includes a light blocking region (A2) in which a far-infrared ray transmission region (B) provided with an opening and a far-infrared ray transmission member arranged in the opening, and a visible light transmission region (C) transmitting visible light are formed. The opening is formed between an upper edge part (1a) of the glass (1) and a first position (P1) in a first direction from the upper e...