ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,627, issued on March 25, 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.) and Rao P. Mulpuri (Saratoga, Calif.).
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 independent operation."
The patent...