ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,565, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Single-chip optical transceiver" was invented by Arnaud Laflaquiere (Paris), Cristiano L Niclass (San Jose, Calif.) and Marc Drader (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device includes a first semiconductor die, having first front and rear surfaces and including at least one avalanche photodetector configured to output electrical pulses in response to photons incident on the first front surface. A second semiconductor die has a second front surface, which is bonded to the first rear surface, and a second rear surface, and includes...