ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,186, issued on June 16, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interaction between an enclosure and one or more occupants" was invented by Tanya Makker (Milpitas, Calif.), Dhairya Shrivastava (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark David Mendenhall (Fremont, Calif.), Stephen Clark Brown (San Mateo, Calif.), Nitesh Trikha (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anurag Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Ajay Malik (Milpitas, Calif.), Siyao Sui (San Jose, Calif.), Chuqing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Rao P. Mulpuri (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system in an enclosure includes one or more interactive targets such as tintable window...