ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,631, issued on April 21, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Magnetic curving of imaging sensors" was invented by Mark O'Masta (Oak Park, Calif.), Amirfarshad Mashal (Malibu, Calif.), Brian Hempe (Malibu, Calif.), Christian Neuhaus (Malibu, Calif.), Chiaming Chang (Malibu, Calif.) and James McWhorter (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved detector system and method for fabrication. In some embodiments, the system includes: an optical array detector, and a magnetic substrate coupled to the optical array detector, the optical array detector having a light-sensitive surface, the light-sensitive surf...