ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,640, issued on June 10, was assigned to VIEW OPERATING Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controlling transitions in optically switchable devices" was invented by Gordon Jack (San Jose, Calif.), Sridhar K. Kailasam (Fremont, Calif.), Stephen C. Brown (San Mateo, Calif.) and Anshu A. Pradhan (Collierville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for applying a drive voltage to bus bars of optically switchable devices such as electrochromic devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the applied drive voltage is controll...