US Patent Issued to View Operating on July 15 for "Particle removal during fabrication of electrochromic devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,425, issued on July 15, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Particle removal during fabrication of electrochromic devices" was invented by Robert T. Rozbicki (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochromic devices are fabricated using a particle removal operation that reduces the occurrence of electronically conducting layers and/or electrochromically active layers from contacting layers of the opposite polarity and creating a short circuit in regions where defects form. In some embodiments, the particle removal operation is not a lithiation operation. In some embodiments, the particle removal o...