ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,852, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Semiconductor light sensing" was invented by Arvin Emadi (San Jose, Calif.), Ravi Billa (Foster City, Calif.), Mohsen Rezaei (Brown Deer, Wis.) and Craig Hetherington (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is set forth herein, in one example, a device comprising: a detector surface; an array of sensing photodiodes formed in a semiconductor formation, wherein the semiconductor formation receives light from the detector surface; and a light separating structure intermediate the detector surface and a sensing photodiode of the array of sensing photodi...