US Patent Issued to Teledyne FLIR on June 23 for "Microbolometer systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,732, issued on June 23, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR LLC (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Microbolometer systems and methods" was invented by Eric A. Kurth (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Marin Sigurdson (Goleta, Calif.), Robert F. Cannata (Santa Barbara, Calif.), James L. Dale (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Christopher Chan (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microbolometer systems and methods are provided herein. For example, an infrared imaging device includes a substrate having contacts and a surface. The surface defines a plane. The infrared imaging device further includes a microbolometer array coupled to the substrate. Each microbo...