US Patent Issued to Sigmagen on July 8 for "Solar photovoltaic blinds and curtains for residential and commercial buildings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,469, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sigmagen Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Solar photovoltaic blinds and curtains for residential and commercial buildings" was invented by Mehrdad M. Moslehi (Los Altos, Calif.) and Pawan Kapur (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solar photovoltaic window blind slats for power generation from internal and external light sources are provided are provided. A plurality of solar cells are attached to at least two sides of a slat core. Distributed maximum power point tracking optimizer components are associated with each solar cell. The solar cells and corresponding distributed maximum power ...