US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND on May 12 for "Absorber, a detector comprising the absorber, and a method of fabricating the absorber" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,560, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND (Paisley, Great Britain).

"Absorber, a detector comprising the absorber, and a method of fabricating the absorber" was invented by Desmond Gibson (Paisley, Great Britain), David Hutson (Paisley, Great Britain) and Shigeng Song (Paisley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorber for absorbing electromagnetic radiation including a first layer with hydrogenated carbon, and a second layer with carbon, and the first layer is less absorbing than the second layer."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/299,885.

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