US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA on Jan. 20 for "Phase-changing polymer film for broadband smart windows applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,917, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, Calif.).

"Phase-changing polymer film for broadband smart windows applications" was invented by Qibing Pei (Calabasas, Calif.), Yu Xie (Los Angeles) and Fangyi Guan (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart window including a solid polymer film which is opaque at an ambient temperature and transparent at an elevated temperature; a transparent heater to supply uniform heating to at least a part of the solid polymer film; and a power supply connected to the transparent heater."

The patent was filed on Nov. 20, 2020, under Applicatio...