ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,485, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Control method for tintable windows" was invented by Stephen C. Brown (San Mateo, Calif.), Deepika Khowal (Milpitas, Calif.), Namrata Vora (San Jose, Calif.) and Santosh V. Philip (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. The tintable window is between the interior and exterior of the building. The method predicts a tint level for the tintable window at a future time based on a penetration depth of direct sunlight through the tintable window...