US Patent Issued to AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (ENEA) on Sept. 23 for "Spectrally selective solar absorber coating" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,168, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (ENEA) (Rome).

"Spectrally selective solar absorber coating" was invented by Salvatore Esposito (Rome), Antonio D'Angelo (Rome), Claudia Diletto (Rome), Giorgio Graditi (Rome) and Antonio Guglielmo (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar absorber coating for a receiver element of a solar thermal or thermodynamic system. An additional aspect is a receiver for solar thermal or thermodynamic systems comprising a coating. The receiver may be an evacuated receiver pipe or a non-evacuated or air-operating r...