US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on May 20 for "Layered thermochromic device for enhanced infrared emission, and method for making the same" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,371, issued on May 20, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Layered thermochromic device for enhanced infrared emission, and method for making the same" was invented by Liping Wang (Chandler, Ariz.), Linshuang Long (Hefei, China) and Sydney Taylor (Charlestown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered thermochromic device for enhanced infrared emission, and method for creating the same is disclosed. The method includes deposing a spacer layer of HfO2 upon a metallic layer, spin coating the spacer layer with photoresist, exposing the photoresist with a photomask, cre...