ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,448, issued on March 4, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.) and NextGen Nano LLC (London).

"Heat insulating transparent tandem organic solar cells" was invented by Franky So (Raleigh, N.C.), Carr Hoi Yi Ho (Raleigh, N.C.), Xiangyu Fu (Raleigh, N.C.) and Matthew Stone (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary transparent tandem organic solar cell comprises a transparent substrate; a first transparent electrode disposed on a surface of the transparent substrate; and a series of interconnecting organic active layers disposed on a surface of the first transparent electrode. The series of organic...