ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,506, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hunter Douglas Inc. (New York).
"Covering with multiple shade configurations" was invented by Toralf Strand (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a covering for an architectural structure includes a multi-panel shade formed form a plurality of panel sections arranged relative to one another to form a continuous sheet, with at least one of the panel sections having different shade properties from the other panel section(s) forming the multi-panel shade. By adjusting the extent to which the panel sections are exposed along the drop length of the covering, the covering may be conf...