Research Frontiers Inc (REFR) company profile

Research Frontiers Incorporated develops and licenses patented suspended particle device light-control technology, known as SPD-Smart. The company operates in a single business segment focused on developing and commercializing technologies that regulate the flow of light. It licenses its intellectual property rather than manufacturing finished goods directly. Its technology utilizes voltage-responsive nanoparticles within films to adjust light, glare, and heat transmission. Customers are industrial licensees that fabricate chemical emulsions, films, panels, and end products for aerospace, automotive, architectural, marine, rail, and display applications.

Headquartered in Woodbury, New York, the company operates with five full-time employees. Research Frontiers maintains global reach through licensees serving markets worldwide, including film production facilities in Germany and Israel. Its dimmable window technology is utilized internationally across more than forty aircraft models, as well as in passenger vehicles, marine vessels, and architectural structures.

Summary of the business section of Research Frontiers's latest annual report, written by StockData.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“March 4, 2026, the Company had five full-time employees, two of whom are technical personnel, and the rest of whom perform legal, finance, marketing, investor relations, and administrative functions.”