ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,129, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).
"Dynamic range extension of SPAD-based devices" was invented by Andre Van Der Avoird (AE Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bobby Daniel (JJ Eindhoven, Netherlands), Erik Jan Lous (KE Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Jagruth Prasanna Kumar (AK Geldrop, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation-sensitive device is disclosed. The radiation-sensitive device includes: a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), and processing circuitry configured to determine an intensity of incident radiation using at least one of the plurality SPADs. An amount of t...