ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,413, issued on July 29, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Ultrafast imaging system without active pixel reset" was invented by Zubin Jacob (West Lafayette, Ind.), Liping Yang (Changchun, China) and Leif H Bauer (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bolometric imaging system is disclosed which includes an array of nano-pixels, each including an optical stack, each including an absorptive layer where incident radiation is converted to heat which simultaneously acts as a first electrode layer vertically disposed adjacent the Free Layer, a fixed magnetic polarity layer (Fixed Layer) in a firs...