US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on Oct. 7 for "Facade system for thermally conditioning buildings" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,889, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston).

"Facade system for thermally conditioning buildings" was invented by Ajla Aksamija (Hadley, Mass.) and Zlatan Aksamija (Hadley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architectural structure having: a wall of a room of the architectural structure; and a panel integrated into the wall, wherein the panel includes thermoelectric components (TECs) arranged as a TEC grid, thereby defining a radiant panel, wherein: the TECs, of the TEC grid, are thermally coupled to a common heat sink formed in part by an exterior surface of the wall; and the wall defines a wa...