US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Smart coatings" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,808, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Smart coatings" was invented by Sohrab Mofid (Orlando, Fla.), Lei Zhai (Orlando, Fla.) and David Fox (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a thermochromic window can include a first transparent layer, a second transparent layer, and a thermochromic fiber layer sandwiched between the first transparent layer and the second transparent layer. In certain embodiments, the thermochromic fiber layer may be embedded in the second transparent layer. The thermochromi...