ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,311, issued on May 12, was assigned to Vitro Flat Glass LLC (Cheswick, Pa.).
"Asymmetric patterned reflective coating" was invented by Patrick Fisher (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated article includes: a substrate having a first side and a second side; and a patterned coating over at least a portion of the second side of the substrate. The patterned coating includes: a first dielectric layer over at least a portion of the second side of the substrate; an absorbing layer over a first portion of the first dielectric layer and including a first reflected aesthetic, and absent over a second portion of the first dielectri...