US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Dec. 16 for "Flexible and tunable infrared emissivity material platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,324, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Flexible and tunable infrared emissivity material platform" was invented by Junqiao Wu (Kensington, Calif.) and Kechao Tang (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material platform with controllable emissivity and fabrication methods are provided that permit the manipulation of thermal radiation detection and IR signal modulation and can be adapted to a variety of uses including infrared camouflage, thermal IR decoys, thermo-reflectance imaging and IR signal modulation. The platform is a multilayer WxV1-xO2 film with di...