US Patent Issued to Santa Barbara Infrared on Nov. 18 for "Radiometric performance enhancement of extended area blackbodies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,218, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Santa Barbara Infrared Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Radiometric performance enhancement of extended area blackbodies" was invented by Joseph D LaVeigne (Buellton, Calif.), Gregory P Matis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Albert Gibson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nathan Radtke (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Vincent Posner (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended area "cavity type" blackbody for use as a radiometric reference for imaging systems may have a well in the form of a cube having four sidewalls and a back wall, and open at the front. The temperature of the back wall may be ...