US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, NEW COSMOS ELECTRIC, FIGARO ENGINEERING on March 3 for "Infrared light absorbent body, and gas sensor provided with infrared light absorbent body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,130, issued on March 3, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Kanagawa, Japan), NEW COSMOS ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and FIGARO ENGINEERING INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Infrared light absorbent body, and gas sensor provided with infrared light absorbent body" was invented by Yoshiaki Nishijima (Yokohama, Japan), Hiromasa Takashima (Osaka, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ueda (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Kawaguchi (Mino, Japan) and Soichiro Sakai (Mino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The infrared absorber 1 is provided with a finely structured metal layer 2 which causes local surface plasmon resonance by abs...