US Patent Issued to View Operating on June 16 for "Control method for tintable windows" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,651, issued on June 16, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control method for tintable windows" was invented by Stephen Clark Brown (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jason Zedlitz (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of controlling tint of a tintable window to account for occupant comfort in a room of a building. Some methods include receiving weather feed data from one or more weather services (or other data sources) over a communication network, determining a weather condition based on the weather feed data, and determining a tint level for the tintable window based on the weather condition an...