ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,723, issued on June 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device and imaging device including the same" was invented by Da Hwan Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Min Kyu Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hak Soon Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Min Seok Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea), Yong Seop Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Eun Chang Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hoo Chan Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device includes a pixel configured to generate a pixel signal having a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pulse by detecting incident light, a time-to-digital c...