ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,426, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAGE ELECTROCHROMICS INC. (Faribault, Minn.).

"Methods for producing lower electrical isolation in electrochromic films" was invented by Harvey Kalweit (Burnsville, Minn.), Satya Ajjarapu (Cupertino, Calif.), Li-Ya Yeh (Geilenkirchen, Germany) and Jean-Christophe Giron (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for an electroactive device having a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and one or more electroactive layers sandwiched between the first and second conductive layers. One or more adjacent layers of the electroactive device may include a p...