ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,709, issued on April 8, was assigned to TXC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Infrared sensor" was invented by Tzong-Sheng Lee (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Jen-Wei Luo (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Weng (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Chun-Chi Lin (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Ting-Chun Hsu (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Hui-Jou Yu (Ping Cheng, Taiwan), Yi-Hung Lin (Ping Cheng, Taiwan) and Sung-Hung Lin (Ping Cheng, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infrared sensor uses an infrared lens with infrared filtering and focusing functions. Thus, an infrared filter can be omitted to reduce the costs and volume. In addition, a getter on the inside of a metal cover of the infr...