ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,787, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Terahertz electromagnetic radiation detector" was invented by Michael Benjamin Johnston (Oxford, Great Britain) and Kun Peng (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector for detecting terahertz electromagnetic radiation comprises a substrate and a pair of electrically isolated detector elements supported thereon. Each detector element comprises a pair of antenna elements having a gap therebetween and a switch element comprising one or more pieces of photoconductive semiconductor material connected between the antenn...