US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 28 for "Transparent, anti-fog tape or film and related devices and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,207, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Transparent, anti-fog tape or film and related devices and methods" was invented by Gang Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Xuanhe Zhao (Allston, Mass.), Shaoting Lin (Cambridge, Mass.) and Yoichiro Tsurimaki (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a stretchable anti-fogging tape (SAT) that can be applied to diverse transparent materials with varied curvatures for persistent fogging prevention. The SAT comprises three synergistically-combined transparent layers: i) a stretchable middle layer wi...