US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Oct. 7 for "Detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation, image sensor, and method for detecting image information" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,030, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation, image sensor, and method for detecting image information" was invented by Jan Genoe (Testelt, Belgium), Robert Gehlhaar (Herent, Belgium) and Kristiaan De Greve (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to detectors for detecting electromagnetic radiation. One embodiment includes a detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation spanning a range from a first wavelength to a second wavelength. The detector includes an array of funnel elements for propagating electromagnetic radiation ...