ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,533, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Bolometer and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Mayumi Kosaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One object of the present invention is to provide a bolometer having low resistance.The present invention relates to a bolometer including two electrodes and a bolometer film lying between the two electrodes to connect the two electrodes, wherein the bolometer film includes semiconducting carbon nanotubes in a proportion of 90% by mass or more to the total amount of carbon nanotubes and includes p-type semiconducting carbon nanotubes, and one or both of the two el...