US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago, University of Virginia Patent Foundation on June 17 for "Avalanche photodiodes with adaptive quenching of photocurrent" (Illinois, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,323, issued on June 17, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago) and University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Avalanche photodiodes with adaptive quenching of photocurrent" was invented by Jiyuan Zheng (Lisle, Ill.), Supratik Guha (Chicago) and Joe C. Campbell (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a high-speed avalanche photodiode device configured to detect single photons. The avalanche photodiode device may include a passive quenching circuitry. The passive quenching circuitry may include a quenching resistor having a resistivity spontaneously adaptiv...