ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,907, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Glass body having enhanced heat insulating performance" was invented by Daisuke Inaoka (Tokyo), Akira Fujisawa (Tokyo), Takahiro Asai (Tokyo) and Katsuki Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass body includes a first glass plate configured to have a first surface and a second surface. At least one plate surface of the first surface and the second surface includes a plurality of radio wave transmission regions through which radio waves are allowed to be transmitted and which is spaced apart from each other, and a conductive film region that is ...