US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on Feb. 17 for "High-performance near-infrared harvesting transparent luminescent solar concentrators" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,432, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"High-performance near-infrared harvesting transparent luminescent solar concentrators" was invented by Richard R. Lunt III (Williamston, Mich.), Chenchen Yang (Holt, Mich.), Babak Borhan (Okemos, Mich.), Mehdi Moemeni (Okemos, Mich.) and Matthew Bates (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC) is provided. The TLSC includes a luminophore and a waveguide that guides light emitted from the luminophore. The TLSC has a light utilization efficiency (LUE) of greater than...