US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 18 for "Differential amplifier gated with quantum dots absorbing incident electromagnetic radiation" (Hawaii, California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,576, issued on March 18, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Differential amplifier gated with quantum dots absorbing incident electromagnetic radiation" was invented by Cody K. Hayashi (Waipahu, Hawaii), Carlos M. Torres Jr. (San Diego), Richard C. Ordonez (Mililani, Hawaii), Nackieb M. Kamin (Kapolei, Hawaii) and David Garmire (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential amplifier includes an unmatched pair, including first quantum dots and second quantum dots, and a matched pair, including first and second phototransistors. The unmatched pair has ...