ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,484, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tintable window system useable as a display for a user interface by an authorized user" was invented by Nitesh Trikha (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephen Clark Brown (San Mateo, Calif.), Dhairya Shrivastava (Los Altos, Calif.) and Robert T. Rozbicki (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resources of a system for controlling optically switchable windows may be used for a personal computing unit. The window system resources may include (i) a display associated with an optically switchable window, (ii) one or more processors of one or more controllers...