ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,683, issued on June 16, was assigned to NANOSCALE GLASSTEC GMBH (Kassel, Germany).
"Lighting module for a building facade" was invented by Hartmut Hillmer (Kassel, Germany) and Guilin Xu (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting module for a building facade, in particular for glazing, has front, rear, upper, and lower sides with respect to the arrangement at the facade. The module includes a base panel at the front side and a base panel at the rear side, wherein the base panels are transparent and an intermediate space is formed between the base panel. A plurality of microsheet elements each have an opaque sheet sect...