ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,560, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to View Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Faster switching electrochromic devices" was invented by Robert T. Rozbicki (Saratoga, Calif.), Anshu A. Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.), Sridhar Karthik Kailasam (Fremont, Calif.), Robin Friedman (Redwood City, Calif.), Gordon E. Jack (San Jose, Calif.) and Dane Thomas Gillaspie (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochromic device (550) having at least one multi-layer conductor (560,580) with a metal layer (564,584) between a first transparent conductive oxide layer (562,566,582,586) and a second transparent conductive oxide layer (562,566,582,586)...