Patent ID: 7504361

Claim:
A custom imaged glass panel, comprising: a generally transparent glass sheet substrate comprising a first surface, and second, oppositely facing surface defining a surface area dimensioned to receive an entire sublimated image, said first and second surfaces being spaced apart by the thickness of the substrate selected to minimize image resolution degradation; an image receiving coating on said second surface formed from liquid thermosettable silica sols, silanes, polyurethanes, and epoxy resins where the image receiving coating sol is a condensation co-polymerized acidic-colloidal silica sol and the image receiving coating has a thickness of 2 mils and the first surface of said glass sheet substrate incorporates friction enhancing texturing; and an entire multicolored image disposed on the second surface, said image having been formed using ink sublimated within said coating and said image being viewable substantially without degradation from the first surface through the thickness of the glass sheet substrate.