US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on July 1 for "Photonic bolometer and performing broadband high-absorption photonic bolometry" (Maryland, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,573, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Photonic bolometer and performing broadband high-absorption photonic bolometry" was invented by Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov (Ellicott City, Md.), Nathan Andrew Tomlin (Boulder, Colo.) and Christopher Shing-Yu Yung (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic bolometer includes: a photonic chip; a weak thermal link; a thermally-isolated member, and the weak thermal link thermally isolates the thermally-isolated member from the photonic chip; a photonic temperature sensor; a ...