US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on June 23 for "Devices and methods for concentrated radiative cooling" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,185, issued on June 23, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Devices and methods for concentrated radiative cooling" was invented by Xiulin Ruan (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Joseph Arthur Peoples (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for concentrated radiative cooling using radiative cooling coatings in combination with mid-infrared reflectors. Concentrated radiative cooling (CRC) devices include an object to be cooled that is coated with a radiative cooling material and a mid-infrared (mid-IR) reflector configured to reflect thermal energy radiated from a surface of the...