ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,658, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing a detection device comprising an encapsulation structure comprising a thin opaque layer resting on a mineral peripheral wall" was invented by Jean-Jacques Yon (Grenoble, France), Geoffroy Dumont (Grenoble, France) and Thomas Perrillat-Bottonet (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a detection device includes steps of: producing thermal detectors distributed in a detection array and a compensation array using mineral sacrificial layers; producing an encapsulatio...