US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Transistor integration with stacked single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,740, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Transistor integration with stacked single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel arrays" was invented by Hong Wei Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Cristiano L. Niclass (San Jose, Calif.), Shingo Mandai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xiaofeng Fan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are photodetectors using arrays of pixels with single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The pixel arrays may have configurations that include one or more control transistors for each SPAD collocated on the same chip or wafer as the pixels and located on a surface of the wa...