ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,578, issued on March 18, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Optical sensing apparatus" was invented by Yen-Cheng Lu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yu-Hsuan Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jung-Chin Chiang (Chiang, Taiwan), Yun-Chung Na (San Jose, Calif.), Tsung-Ting Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Zheng-Shun Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chou-Yun Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing apparatus including: a substrate including a first material; an absorption region including a second material different from the first material; an amplification region formed in the substrate and config...