US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 7 for "Energy efficient soundproofing window retrofits" (Massachusetts, Tennessee, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,741, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Energy efficient soundproofing window retrofits" was invented by Evelyn N. Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Gang Chen (Carlisle, Mass.), Xuanhe Zhao (Allston, Mass.), Elise M. Strobach (Clear Lake, Wis.), Bikramjit S. Bhatia (Cambridge, Mass.), Lin Zhao (Revere, Mass.), Sungwoo Yang (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Lee A. Weinstein (Somerville, Mass.), Thomas A. Cooper (Boston) and Shaoting Lin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are window retrofits including a monolithic silica aerogel slab having (i) an average haze value of...