US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 16 for "Infrared absorber, method for manufacturing same, blackbody radiation device, and radiative cooling device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,144, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Infrared absorber, method for manufacturing same, blackbody radiation device, and radiative cooling device" was invented by Kuniaki Amemiya (Tsukuba, Japan) and Yuhei Shimizu (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an infrared absorber having extremely low reflectivity in the wavelength band of infrared rays, a method for manufacturing the same, a black-body radiation device, and a radiative cooling device. Provided is an infrared absorber 10 provided with: an absorption layer 11 comprising carbon bla...