ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,471, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to POLYCEED INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).
"Electrochromic dyes and their use in electrochromic devices" was invented by Anoop Agrawal (Tucson, Ariz.), John Cronin (Tucson, Ariz.), Lori Adams (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Sahila Perananthan (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides compositions of electrochromic dyes, functionalized electrochromic dyes and dye macromers which may be incorporated into electrochromic devices with tailored optical properties. The disclosure provides an electrochromic dye with an attached functionalization group wherein the said dye colors by at least on...