ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,990, issued on July 1, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-zone EC windows" was invented by Dhairya Shrivastava (Los Altos, Calif.), Robin Friedman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vinod Khosla (Portola Valley, Calif.), Rao Mulpuri (Saratoga, Calif.) and Anshu A. Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thin-film devices, for example, multi-zone electrochromic windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. In certain cases, a multi-zone electrochromic window comprises a monolithic EC device on a transparent substrate and two or more tinting zones, wherein the tinting zones are configured for in...