ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,067, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TAMRON Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Thermal radiation element, thermal radiation element module, and thermal radiation light source" was invented by Shunya Fukui (Saitama, Japan) and Jie Li (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal radiation element includes a substrate; and a plasmonic perfect absorber in which a first conductor layer covering one main surface of the substrate, an insulator layer, and a second conductor layer are laminated in this order, in which the first conductor layer is provided with electrodes through which a current flows in an in-plane direction of a main...