ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,975, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Diaphragm with exciter, and vehicle window glass" was invented by Jun Akiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exciter-attached diaphragm, including: a glass plate; an exciter attached on a main surface side of the glass plate and configured to vibrate the glass plate; and a vibration damping member located on a periphery of the exciter, surrounding at least a part of the exciter, and attached on the main surface side in a plan view of the glass plate, in which the vibration damping member includes a vibration attenuation layer and a vibration damping material laminat...