US Patent Issued to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on Feb. 3 for "Temperature programmable small molecules for thermoresponsive smart windows and applications thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,278, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Delhi).

"Temperature programmable small molecules for thermoresponsive smart windows and applications thereof" was invented by Ajayaghosh Ayyappanpillai (Thiruvananthapuram, India), Dipak Patra (Thiruvananthapuram, India) and Sreejith Shankar Pooppanal (Thiruvananthapuram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Design and applications of a class of water-soluble small molecules represented by formula 1. The molecules, in their dilute aqueous solutions, exhibit lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase transitions near room temperature, induc...