ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,581, issued on April 29, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Colored radiative cooling device" was invented by Jonghwa Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Suwan Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a colored radiative cooling device that includes a selective heat transfer layer between a spectral selective filter and a thermal emitter, and a method of cooling an object by using the colored radiative cooling device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2021, under Application No. 17/560,364.

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