US Patent Issued to View Operating on Aug. 5 for "Driving thin film switchable optical devices" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,639, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Driving thin film switchable optical devices" was invented by Anshu A Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.), Disha Mehtani (Los Altos, Calif.) and Gordon Jack (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controllers and control methods apply a drive voltage to bus bars of a thin film optically switchable device. The applied drive voltage is provided at a level that drives a transition over the entire surface of the optically switchable device but does not damage or degrade the device. This applied voltage produces an effective voltage at all locations on the ...