ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,321, issued on June 17, was assigned to L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"And manufacturing methods of SWIR I2TUBE via heterogeneous wafer integration" was invented by Bed Pantha (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photocathode is formed with a first absorber assembly on a first substrate for a first spectral band a second absorber assembled on a second substrate for a second spectral band. The second substrate is different from the first substrate, and the second spectral band is different from the first spectral band. The first absorber and the second absorber can be joined using a direct semiconductor wa...