US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on June 17 for "Electrochromic devices and methods" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,531, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Electrochromic devices and methods" was invented by Pelagia I. Gouma (Columbus, Ohio) and Owen Oladele Abe (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochromic device comprising a substrate, a set of electrodes disposed on or within the substrate, and a layer comprising Epsilon-WO3 disposed in electrical communication with the set of electrodes, wherein the layer of Epsilon-WO3 exhibits polarization switching are described. Methods of making and using the electrochromic devices are also described. The electrochromic devices are use...