ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,736, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Wide angle optical angle sensor" was invented by Henry L. Edwards (Garland, Texas), Udumbara Wijesinghe (Richardson, Texas) and William R. Krenik (Garland, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate with a semiconductor surface layer having a first conductivity type and a top surface, a diode including a buried region within the surface layer, the buried region having an opposite second conductivity type and being spaced apart from the top surface by a portion of the semiconductor surface layer having the first c...