ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,633, issued on May 27, was assigned to EPIR INC. (Bolingbrook, Ill.).
"Radiation hardened infrared focal plane array" was invented by Yong Chang (Naperville, Ill.), Silviu Velicu (Willowbrook, Ill.) and Sushant Sonde (Westmont, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An FPA includes a substrate; a plurality of spaced-apart implant regions deposited in the substrate; a plurality of supplemental metal contacts, one supplemental metal contact of the plurality of supplemental metal contacts electrically connected to one implant region of the plurality of implant regions; a plurality of metal conductors electrically connecting the plurality o...