US Patent Issued to Quantum-Si on May 13 for "Integrated circuit with improved charge transfer efficiency and associated techniques" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,496, issued on May 13, was assigned to Quantum-Si Inc. (Branford, Conn.).

"Integrated circuit with improved charge transfer efficiency and associated techniques" was invented by Eric A. G. Webster (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for improving the rate and efficiency of charge transfer within an integrated circuit configured to receive incident photons. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits that are configured to induce one or more intrinsic electric fields that increase the rate and efficiency of charge transfer within the integrated circuit...