US Patent Issued to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY on March 4 for "Microbolometer and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,787, issued on March 4, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Microbolometer and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Chun-Yuan Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a microbolometer including a substrate, a readout circuit layer disposed above the substrate, a first vanadium oxide layer disposed above the readout circuit layer, a second vanadium oxide layer disposed on the first vanadium oxide layer, and an infrared absorbing layer disposed above the second vanadium oxide layer, in which an oxygen content of the second vanadium oxide is ...