ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,669, issued on July 29, was assigned to AMS SENSORS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Front-end electronic circuitry for a photon counting application" was invented by Fridolin Michel (Au, Switzerland), Charalambos Andreou (Tann, Switzerland), Massimo Rigo (Munich), Matthias Steiner (Seiersberg, Australia) and Juan Miguel Gavillero (Paterna, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front-end electronic circuitry for a photon counting application includes a charge sensitive amplifier including an amplifier circuit and a capacitor being arranged in a feedback path between the input side and the output side of the amplifier circuit. A con...