US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on July 15 for "Thermally coupled imager for performing time and position sensitive imaging of single photons" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,257, issued on July 15, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Thermally coupled imager for performing time and position sensitive imaging of single photons" was invented by Adam Nykoruk McCaughan (Denver), Boris Alexander Korzh (Altadena, Calif.), Varun Boehm Verma (Lafayette, Colo.) and Sae Woo Nam (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally coupled imager includes a single photon detection pixel electrically isolated but in thermal communication with a thermal readout bus via a thermally conductive galvanic isolator, wherein the s...