US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations on Aug. 25 for "Bendable materials for electromagnetic interference shielding and detection of infrared and visible radiation" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,905, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Bendable materials for electromagnetic interference shielding and detection of infrared and visible radiation" was invented by Francesca Cavallo (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Emma Renteria (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed methods integrate EMI shielding with visible-to-IR or IR photodetection functionalities in flexible semiconductor/2D material devices, including photodiodes and photoconductive detectors. The processes generally involve transferring a 2D material onto a semiconductor membrane, depositing dielectric layer...