US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Sept. 15 for "Three-layered structural color multilayer structures" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,728, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Three-layered structural color multilayer structures" was invented by Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Minjuan Zhang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer structure that reflects color includes a core layer, and a conformal dielectric layer encapsulating the core layer. A conformal absorber layer encapsulates the conformal dielectric layer. The multilayer structure consists of three optical layers."

The patent was ...