ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,313, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LYNRED (Palaiseau, France).
"Microbolometer having reduced pixel pitch" was invented by Nicolas Boudou (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a microbolometer comprising an array of pixels, each pixel comprising one or more detection cells, each detection cell comprising an absorption layer (530), wherein: the pitch of the detection cells in at least one direction in the plane of pixel array is between 5 and 11 micro metre; a pixel fill factor FF of the absorption layer (530) of the one or more detection cells in each pixel is in a range 0.10 to 0.50;...