ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,361, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cover glass and method for producing glass sheet for cover glass" was invented by Satoshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Takeshi Yabuta (Tokyo), Toru Higuchi (Tokyo) and Kiyomi Fukushima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a cover glass that can improve the visibility of a display unit in an automobile and a method for producing a glass sheet for the cover glass. The present invention provides a cover glass that is to be installed so as to cover a display unit in an automobile, and the cover glass includes a glass body th...