US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Systems and methods for power efficient image acquisition using single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs)" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,981, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for power efficient image acquisition using single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs)" was invented by Raymond Kirk Price (Carnation, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.) and William Chao-Hui Hwang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for power efficient image acquisition is configurable to capture, using an image sensor, a plurality of partial image frames including at least a first partial image frame and a second partial image frame. The first partial image fra...