ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,818, issued on Nov. 25.

"Axial detectors, a novel method for the detection of electromagnetic radiation at a broad range of wavelengths" was invented by Magued Boshra Nasr (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic radiation detector according to the present invention comprises a polarization control element (PCE) configured to receive incident radiation and having a substrate with a shape to polarize said incident radiation into a cylindrical vector beam (CVB), and a rectifying element (RE) configured to receive the CVB and generate a signal representing information of the incident radiation. The RE may include...