ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,160, issued on March 31, was assigned to Halio Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Prediction and correction of hardware failures of electrochromic devices" was invented by Jerimiah Dickey (Farmington, Utah), Stephen Lawrence (Salt Lake City) and Min Yang (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and correcting hardware failures in electrochromic devices is described. The system may include a memory to store data and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device causes a tinting state of an electrochromic device to correspond to a first tinting state, receives first sensor data corresponding to a...