US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Aug. 12 for "Digital domain photon peak event detection system and method" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,837, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Digital domain photon peak event detection system and method" was invented by Stephen Boppart (Champaign, Ill.), Janet Sorrells (Champaign, Ill.) and Rishyashring Raman Iyer (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon peak event detection system accepts an analog output from a photon sensor, directly digitizes the analogy output and includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) programmed to conduct a photon peak event detection in real-time via a photon count program that analyzes the digitized photon sensor output i...