ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,386, issued on July 22, was assigned to SkyCool Systems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Radiative cooling systems" was invented by Aaswath Raman (Los Angeles), Eli A. Goldstein (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material may be included in a cooling film or cooling panel to achieve cooling even under direct solar irradiation. The material includes one or more constituent materials and an outer surface configured to interact thermally with the atmosphere and with solar radiation. The material exhibits an emissivity of at least 0.8 in spectral range of 5 micro metre to 15 micro met...