ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,679, issued on May 26, was assigned to BOLYMEDIA HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Solar energy utilization device" was invented by Xiaoping Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar energy utilization device, comprising a light energy utilization device and at least one liquid light condensing device. The liquid light condensing device is filled with a transparent liquid. The liquid light condensing device has at least one photoreceptor capable of transmitting sunlight into the transparent liquid and a reflector that reflects incident sunlight. In the liquid light condensing device, the sunlight that is refle...