US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 23 for "Solar concentrator wrapping films" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,438, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar concentrator wrapping films" was invented by Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Shinya Iwasaki (Susono, Japan), Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryota Tomizawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrapping film includes a transparent film with an ultraviolet-near infrared (UV-NIR) active layer and a visibly transparent infrared (VTIR) reflective layer. The transparent film is configured to be wrapped onto a surface, the UV-NIR ...