ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,592, issued on April 14, was assigned to Jena-Optronik GmbH (Germany).
"Detector, optoelectronic image recording system, and spacecraft for image recording" was invented by Reinhard Berger (Jena, Germany), Uwe Schmidt (Burgel, Germany) and Andreas Zintl (Arnstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector for image recording, in particular for an optoelectronic image recording system for a spacecraft, includes a carrier substrate and an optoelectronic element arranged on the carrier substrate. At least in one end region, the carrier substrate has at least one side surface running obliquely to the longitudinal direction of th...