ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,061, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Electrical bus system comprising a plurality of bus segments" was invented by Joel A. Stray (Hudsonville, Mich.), Gary J. Dozeman (Zeeland, Mich.), Stephen F. Richlich (Holland, Mich.), Matthew A. Koppey (Holland, Mich.) and George A. Neuman (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optic element comprises a first substrate; a second substrate generally parallel to the first substrate; a first bus having a first bus segment disposed on an inner surface of the first substrate and extending along a first portion of a perimeter of the first substrat...