ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,684, issued on June 23, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for improved facade-level aesthetics of dynamic glass" was invented by Illayathambi Kunadian (San Jose, Calif.), Dmytro Poplavskyy (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sridhar Karthik Kailasam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure concern controllers and control methods for transitioning a group of optically switchable devices. Such devices are often provided on windows such as architectural glass. In certain embodiments, the methods transition multiple optically switchable devices that are positioned in proximity as a grou...