ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,526, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Balanced photodetector and methods thereof" was invented by Zhi Li (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Doylend (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Gregory Lovell (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aliasghar Eftekhar (Fremont, Calif.) and Srinivasan Sethuraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balanced photodetector may include: a balanced photodetector including a first photodiode and a second photodiode coupled with one another at a common node, wherein the first photodiode has a first effective responsivity and the second photodiode has as second effective responsivity; a...