US Patent Issued to Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf on May 27 for "Photodetector having an avalanche photodiode, radiation detector, positron emission tomograph and method for operating a photodetector" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,616, issued on May 27, was assigned to Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (Dresden, Germany).

"Photodetector having an avalanche photodiode, radiation detector, positron emission tomograph and method for operating a photodetector" was invented by David Weinberger (Dresden, Germany), Toni Kogler (Dresden, Germany) and Guntram Pausch (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector (90) having an exposure surface (91) has a first photodiode array (1) having a first light entry surface (11) and a second photodiode array (2) having a second light entry surface (21). The first photodiode array (1) has an avalanche p...