ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,402, issued on June 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a photodiode and device for carrying out the method" was invented by Mirko Hattass (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a photodiode. In the method, a voltage made up of a sum of a constant first voltage and a second voltage having a fixed frequency is applied to the photodiode and an output signal of the photodiode is detected. A spectral composition of the output signal is subsequently detected and at least one coefficient of a non-linear term of a gain of the photodiode is ascertained on the ba...