US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on Jan. 28 for "Optical readout for thermal detector array" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,912, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Optical readout for thermal detector array" was invented by Nathan Andrew Tomlin (Boulder, Colo.) and Christopher Shing-Yu Yung (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to an optical detector system capable of detecting in the infrared and terahertz regions of the electromagnetic spectrum with increased sensitivity and simplicity. It includes microbolometers in an array, a waveguide for receiving readout light input from an optical li...