US Patent Issued to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems on March 18 for "Microbolometer systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,221, issued on March 18, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Microbolometer systems and methods" was invented by Eric A. Kurth (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Marin Sigurdson (Goleta, Calif.) and Robert F. Cannata (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microbolometer systems and methods are provided herein. For example, an infrared imaging device includes a substrate having contacts and a surface. The surface defines a plane. The infrared imaging device further includes a microbolometer array coupled to the substrate. Each microbolometer of the microbolometer array includes a cross-sectio...