US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Jan. 27 for "Thermochromic structure for solar and thermal radiation regulation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,955, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"Thermochromic structure for solar and thermal radiation regulation" was invented by Baoling Huang (Hong Kong), Shuhuai Yao (Hong Kong), Chongjia Lin (Hong Kong) and Jun Hur (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar and thermal regulating window structure including: an optically-transparent housing frame; a reversible liquid absorbent material layer positioned in the housing frame; a thermally-reflective layer having high solar transmittance and high thermal reflectance positioned over the liquid absorbent material layer; a...