US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on May 13 for "Transparent energy-harvesting devices" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,665, issued on May 13, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Transparent energy-harvesting devices" was invented by Richard R. Lunt III (Williamston, Mich.) and Yimu Zhao (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting system is provided. The energy harvesting system includes a waveguide, a luminophore embedded in the waveguide, and a solar photovoltaic array or a solar photovoltaic cell coupled to the waveguide. The energy harvesting system is visibly transparent, having an average visible transmittance of greater than about 50% and a color rendering index of ...