US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on March 31 for "Passive thermal regulation system and devices thereof" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,735, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Passive thermal regulation system and devices thereof" was invented by Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dajie Xie (Champaign, Ill.) and Paul V. Braun (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive thermal regulation system includes a substrate and a coating. The coating is positioned to encapsulate at least a portion of the substrate. The coating includes a first hydrogel layer and a second hydrogel layer. The first hydrogel layer ...