US Patent Issued to Vitro Flat Glass on Feb. 24 for "Solar control coatings and methods of forming solar control coatings" (Pennsylvania, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,747, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Cheswick, Pa.).

"Solar control coatings and methods of forming solar control coatings" was invented by James P. Thiel (Lihue, Hawaii), Andrew V. Wagner (Pittsburgh), Adam D. Polcyn (Pittsburgh), Dennis J. O'Shaughnessy (Allison Park, Pa.), Paul A. Medwick (Wexford, Pa.), Harry Buhay (Yardley, Pa.), Jeffrey A. Benigni (Manorville, Pa.) and Donald Anthony (Lower Burrell, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated article includes a substrate and a coating applied over at least a portion of the substrate. The coating includes at least one metallic layer formed from one or mo...