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Smart Glass Company Research Frontiers Licenses GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems to Offer SPD-Smart Armored Glass for Vehicles

March 5, 2008

GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems Inc. has acquired a license from Research Frontiers Inc., the developer and licensor of SPD-Smart^(TM) light-control film technology. The license grants GKN Aerospace the right to manufacture and offer armored SPD-SmartGlass^(TM) products utilizing Research Frontiers' patented light-control technology for armored transportation vehicles. The fees and minimum annual royalties payable to Research Frontiers and other license terms were not disclosed.

When integrated with glass or plastic sunroofs, windshields, side and rear windows, and other vehicle glazings, SPD-Smart film gives users the ability to rapidly, precisely and uniformly control the amount of light, glare and heat entering the vehicle. Under the license agreement, GKN Aerospace can offer armored SPD-Smart products to numerous transportation vehicle markets including passenger cars, trucks, trains, RVs, armored personnel carriers, tanks, amphibious vehicles and warships.

SPD-Smart armored vehicle glazings provide greater security due to on-demand privacy capability, increase passengers' comfort, and protect passengers and interiors from heat and harmful ultraviolet radiation. SPD-Smart technology empowers users by offering instant, real-time control over the environment to suit one's preference or requirements.

SPD-Smart transparencies can be optically clear, block over 99.5% of visible light, and are tunable manually or automatically to any level of light transmission between clear and dark. All of this is done instantly and uniformly regardless of the size of the window - advantages that other smart window technologies, such as liquid crystals or electrochromics, cannot offer.

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Source: Research Frontiers Inc.

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