US Patent Issued to GENTEX on July 15 for "Electrochromic block copolymers and devices made with such copolymers" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,011, issued on July 15, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"Electrochromic block copolymers and devices made with such copolymers" was invented by Marcus A. Brinks (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Joshua P. McClure (Jenison, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium for an electro-optic element includes a first block copolymer unit including at least one of a first di-block copolymer and first tri-block copolymer and at least one of a donor compound or an acceptor compound conjugated with the at least one of the first di-block copolymer and first tri-block copolymer, thereby forming the first block copolymer unit. The medium...