ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,610, issued on March 17, was assigned to ELSTAR DYNAMICS PATENTS B.V. (Rockanje, Netherlands).

"Glazing unit with optical modulation and reception of radio frequency signal" was invented by Anthony John Slack (Lorgues, France), Romaric Mathieu Massard (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and David Richard Thomas (Opio, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glazing unit (101) is provided configured for reception of radio frequency signals, the glazing unit (101) has an optical layer (143) including electrophoretic charged particles and being arranged between a first substrate (141) and a second substrate (142), electrodes (122, 123) on the sub...