US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT on Jan. 27 for "Smart windows based on electrophoresis of scattering particles" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,712, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium).

"Smart windows based on electrophoresis of scattering particles" was invented by Kristiaan Neyts (Ghent, Belgium), Filip Beunis (Ghent, Belgium) and Mohammadreza Bahrami (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable optical element, a smart window having the same, and a method for switching between optical states of the element such that the optical element includes a pair of substrates disposed facing each other, and at least one cell arranged between the pair of substrates and filled with scattering particles. An electrode configuration is pro...