ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,067, issued on April 8, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hybrid photovoltaic thermal system with flexible arrangements of spectral splitting optical filtration and thermal management utilities" was invented by Ahmed Samir Abdelrazik (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fahad Abdulaziz Alsulaiman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Saidur Rahman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system including flexible integration of spectral splitting optical filtration and thermal management utilities is described. An optical filtration (OF) channel is prov...