US Patent Issued to Adaps Photonics on June 30 for "SPAD pixel circuits and methods thereof for direct time of flight sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,371, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adaps Photonics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"SPAD pixel circuits and methods thereof for direct time of flight sensors" was invented by Ching-Ying Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Yangsen Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Shuang Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Zang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to sensing devices. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a SPAD pixel device that include a p-type material that partially encloses an n-type material. The junction between the p-type material and the n-type material is three dimensional and includes...