US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on July 21 for "Frequency modulation based IR sensing and imaging and related methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,434, issued on July 21, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Frequency modulation based IR sensing and imaging and related methods" was invented by Debashis Chanda (Orlando, Fla.), Sayan Chandra (Orlando, Fla.) and Tianyi Guo (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IR sensor comprises a substrate, a rear reflector on the substrate, a supporting layer a PCM layer carried by the supporting layer, and first and second electrically conductive contacts carried by the substrate and coupled to opposing sides of the PCM layer. The IR sensor also includes a circuit coupled to the fi...