ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,245, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hukseflux Holding B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).
"Sensor for measuring diffuse solar irradiance" was invented by Cornelis Jan Van Den Bos (Delft, Netherlands) and Eric Richard Hoeksema (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention shows a sensor for measuring diffuse solar irradiance including: an hemisphere having an approximately 2Pi steradian solid opening angle with a non-transparent layer and a transparent aperture pattern, the transparent aperture pattern providing a near-uniform transmission of the diffuse radiation as seen from near a center of the hemisphere, an apertu...