US Patent Issued to Duke University on April 22 for "Dual-mode heating and cooling devices and related systems and methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,862, issued on April 22, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Dual-mode heating and cooling devices and related systems and methods" was invented by Pochun Hsu (Durham, N.C.) and Xiuqiang Li (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-mode heating and cooling system includes a dual-mode heating and cooling device including a cooling part and a heating part that are configured to be selectively exposed to sunlight in a cooling mode and a heating mode, respectively, with the cooling part configured to provide radiative cooling to a structure, and with the heating part configured to provide solar heating to the struct...