ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,559, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).
"Optoelectronic device" was invented by Thomas Pierre Schrans (Temple City, Calif.), Amit Singh Nagra (Altadena, Calif.), Albert Benzoni (Pasadena, Calif.) and Andrew George Rickman (Marlborough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device. The device comprising: an input waveguide, which receives an optical signal; a multistage photodiode detector, comprising a plurality of photodiode elements connected in series, one of the photodiode elements of the plurality of photodiode elements being connected to the input waveg...