US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 3 for "Structures for radiative cooling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,596, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Structures for radiative cooling" was invented by Aaswath Pattabhi Raman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Shanhui Fan (Stanford, Calif.) and Eden Rephaeli (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling device and method for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling device includes a solar spectrum reflecting structure configured and arranged to suppress light modes, and a thermally-emissive structure configure...