US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on March 11 for "Low power single photon avalanche diode photon counter with peak current suppression technique" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,873, issued on March 11, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low power single photon avalanche diode photon counter with peak current suppression technique" was invented by Rui Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Tiejun Dai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lindsay Alexander Grant (Campbell, Calif.) and Keiji Mabuchi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of counting photons using a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), including initiating a detection phase, enabling each single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) of the plurality of SPADs for a period of time within the detection phase, accu...