US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 29 for "Infrared sensor and method of controlling infrared sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,412, issued on July 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Infrared sensor and method of controlling infrared sensor" was invented by Naoki Tambo (Kyoto, Japan), Masaki Fujikane (Osaka, Japan), Kunihiko Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Kosei Ohura (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuyuki Naito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infrared sensor is provided with an infrared light receiver, a signal pathway, and a first member. The infrared light receiver has a structure in which at least two materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion are layered. The signal pathway includes a ...