ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,458, issued on May 27, was assigned to AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Recharge circuit for digital silicon photomultipliers" was invented by Thomas Frach (Aachen, Germany) and Torsten Solf (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates generally to silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) detector arrays. In one aspect, there is a system including an array of cells each including a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) reverse-biased above a breakdown voltage of the SPAD. Each cell may further include trigger logic connected to the SPAD, and configured to output a trigger signal i...