US Patent Issued to Aeluma on April 7 for "Stacked focal plane array circuit and method thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,822, issued on April 7, was assigned to Aeluma Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Stacked focal plane array circuit and method thereof" was invented by Michael McGivney (Goleta, Calif.), Jonathan Klamkin (Goleta, Calif.), Bowen Song (Goleta, Calif.), Bei Shi (Goleta, Calif.) and Simone Tommaso Suran Brunelli (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked focal planar array (FPA) device and method of fabrication. The method can include forming photodetectors or FPAs by heteroepitaxial growth of III-V PINs, APDs, or other photodetector devices that are bonded to a Si-based read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) wafer in a stacked configurat...