ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,845, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Quantum-Si Inc. (Branford, Conn.).

"Optical and electrical secondary path rejection" was invented by Dajiang Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Farshid Ghasemi (Guilford, Conn.), Keith G. Fife (Palo Alto, Calif.), Todd Rearick (Cheshire, Conn.), Ali Kabiri (Guilford, Conn.), Gerard Schmid (Guilford, Conn.) and Eric A.G. Webster (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques to reduce or remove the impact of secondary path photons and/or charge carriers on storage bins of an integrated device to improve noise performance, and thus, sample analysis. Some embodiments rel...