ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,733, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Flexo-electric broadband photo-detectors and electrical energy generators" was invented by Svetlana V. Boriskina (Winchester, Mass.), Bruno Lorenzi (Ponte San Pietro, Italy), Gang Chen (Carlisle, Mass.) and Yoichiro Tsurimaki (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photo-detectors disclosed include at least one of a thin film or a heterostructure of photo-sensitive material and a pair of Ohmic contacts coupled to the at least one of the thin film or the heterostructure. The at least one of the thin film or the heterostructure is ...