US Patent Issued to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Infrared radiation source" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,071, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Infrared radiation source" was invented by Stefan Hampl (Dresden, Germany), Kerstin Kammer (Radebeul, Germany), Olaf Storbeck (Dresden, Germany) and Ines Uhlig (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IR (infrared) radiation source includes a sealed cavity structure enclosing a vacuum chamber having a low atmospheric pressure, wherein the sealed cavity structure includes a thermally and electrically insulating material for enclosing the vacuum chamber, heating filaments extending in the vacuum chamber between opposing electrode regions ...