ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,154, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Easy-to-clean-coating-attached glass article" was invented by Yoko Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a coating-attached glass article having improved easy-to-clean properties. The provided coating-attached glass article includes a glass substrate and an easy-to-clean coating on the glass substrate. The coating includes cerium oxide, and a contact angle of water on a surface of the coating is 60deg or more and 130deg or less. The coating improves, for example, the ease of removal of dirt resulting from a wa...