US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on March 25 for "Thermochromic composite material, its preparation and use" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,736, issued on March 25, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Thermochromic composite material, its preparation and use" was invented by Chi Yan Tso (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Sai Liu (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Hau Him Lee (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Tsz Chung Ho (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material comprising a substrate body having a mesoporous structure defined by a network of interconnected fibers; and a thermochromic material including a hydrogel complex filling the mesoporous network, the hydrogel complex including a first polymer being a thermoresponsive hydrogel; wherein t...