ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,932, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AMBILIGHT INC (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"High transparency electrochromic polymers" was invented by Jianguo Mei (West Lafayette, Ind.), Liyan You (West Lafayette, Ind.), Palak Mehra (West Lafayette, Ind.), Zhiyang Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Vaidehi Pandit (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochromic polymer includes a formula ofMCL represents a meta-conjugated linker, and Ac represents an aromatic moiety. The disclosed electrochromic polymer has an absorption onset equal to or smaller than 420 nm in a neutral state and has absorption in visible and/or near-infrared...