ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,306, issued on June 17, was assigned to DB HiTek Co. Ltd. (Bucheon-si, South Korea).
"SPAD structure" was invented by Ju Hwan Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hwan Hyeon (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Jong Man Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Byoung Soo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) structure. More particularly, provided is a SPAD structure having an isolation structure for electrical and/or physical separation between a pixel area and a logic area."
The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/819,572.
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