US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for conserving thermal and electrical energy usage in buildings and houses" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,882, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Systems and methods for conserving thermal and electrical energy usage in buildings and houses" was invented by Moncef Krarti (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of use of movable shading devices, are disclosed. In some example implementations, the system can include one or more movable shading devices, where the one or more movable shading devices are configured to be selectively moveable, based on control by a programmable controller, with respect to an external surface of a building or house, where the ext...