ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,677, issued on June 23, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dimming laminate and resin spacer for dimming laminate" was invented by Yasuyuki Yamada (Shiga, Japan), Hideyuki Takahashi (Shiga, Japan), Saori Ueda (Shiga, Japan) and Minoru Nakajima (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dimming laminate which can effectively suppress occurrence of color unevenness and light omission. The dimming laminate according to the present invention includes a first transparent base material, a second transparent base material, and a dimming layer disposed between the first transparent base material and th...