ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,126, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Thermopile sensor and sensor array" was invented by Kouhei Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Masaki Fujikane (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tanaka (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermopile sensor according to the present disclosure includes a p-type portion and an n-type portion. The p-type portion has a first phononic crystal in which first holes are arranged in a plan view. The n-type portion has a second phononic crystal in which second holes are arranged in a plan view. The p-type portion and the n-type portion constitut...