US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Time-of-flight image sensor with quantum dot photodetectors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,289, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Time-of-flight image sensor with quantum dot photodetectors" was invented by Adrian Mikolajczak (Los Altos, Calif.) and Muzammil Arain (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (ToF) sensor includes a photodetector array and a processing circuit. The photodetector array includes a plurality of photodetectors wherein each photodetector of the photodetector array includes a silicon-based, light-sensitive diode. Each silicon-based, light-sensitive diode includes a photosensitive layer comprising a plurality of quantum dot partic...