MUMBAI, India, March 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517019680 A) filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, Japan, on March 5, for 'structural color multilayer structures having barrier layers.'

Inventor(s) include Wu, Songtao; Banerjee, Debasish; and Zhang, Mindy.

The application for the patent was published on March 28, under issue no. 13/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A multilayer structure that reflects color having a core layer and a conformal dielectric layer encapsulating the core layer. A conformal barrier layer encapsulates the conformal dielectric layer, and a conformal absorber layer encapsulates the conformal barrier layer."

The pa...