US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 15 for "Energy efficient and adaptive space cooling and heating system" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,849, issued on July 15, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Energy efficient and adaptive space cooling and heating system" was invented by Tian Li (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for heating and cooling are provided. The system may include an energy collector and an adaptive panel connected to the energy collector. The adaptive panel may a radiative cooling layer configured to dissipate heat from the energy collector. The radiative cooling layer may further include a thermo-responsive polymer configured to adjust transparency depending on temperature. The syst...