US Patent Issued to DRS Network & Imaging Systems on June 24 for "Method and system for liquid encapsulated growth of cadmium zinc telluride crystals" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,549, issued on June 24, was assigned to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Method and system for liquid encapsulated growth of cadmium zinc telluride crystals" was invented by Lance Robertson (Rockwall, Texas), Luigi Colombo (Dallas), Victor Perez-Rubio (Plano, Texas), Tim Svoboda (Grand Prairie, Texas), Fred Raymel Harris (Duncanville, Texas) and Kathryn O'Brien (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for growing a CdZnTe crystal includes a crucible operable to contain a solid CdZnTe source and a heating element operable to melt an upper surface to the solid CdZnTe source and form a tellurium rich melt flo...