ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,307, issued on June 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).
"Electronic device comprising a photodiode" was invented by Arnaud Tournier (Grenoble, France), Boris Rodrigues Goncalves (Theys, France) and Francois Roy (Seyssins, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided that includes a photodiode. The photodiode includes a semiconductor region coupled to a node of application of a first voltage, and at least one semiconductor wall. The at least one semiconductor wall extends along at least a height of the photodiode and partially surrounds the semiconductor region."
The pat...