ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,092, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Scalable method for security barriers" was invented by Christopher J. Bett (Wakefield, Mass.), Nathan C. Brown (Cambridge, Mass.), Craig Alfred Armiento (Acton, Mass.) and Peter Alexander Bellus (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to form a security barrier of an electronic device under protection. The method includes depositing a transformable dielectric material layer on the electronic device under protection, and converting a target portion of the transformable dielectric material layer into at least one electrical circuit struct...