ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,201, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Shading device" was invented by Yujie Wu (Ecublens, Switzerland), Jerome Henri Kampf (Corcelles-Pres-Concise, Switzerland) and Jean-Louis Scartezzini (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shading device is configured to be integrated into a facade of a building. The shading device includes an imaging system configured to create images of an outside view of the building."
The patent was filed on April 17, 2019, under Application No. 17/263,266.
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