US Patent Issued to NewSouth Innovations on July 29 for "Circuitry and methods of operating a photodiode" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,398, issued on July 29, was assigned to NewSouth Innovations Pty Ltd. (New South Wales, Australia).

"Circuitry and methods of operating a photodiode" was invented by Yuan Wei (New South Wales, Australia), Torsten Lehmann (New South Wales, Australia) and Leonardo Silvestri (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to a photodiode and, in particular, to operating a photodiode in a zero-mode operation, where the photodiode operates at either zero current or zero voltage. Accordingly, there is provided a circuit configured for detecting light, including a photodiode; and a circuit ...