US Patent Issued to AMS INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Dynamic range extension of SPAD-based devices" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,503, issued on April 21, was assigned to AMS INTERNATIONAL AG (Jona, Switzerland).

"Dynamic range extension of SPAD-based devices" was invented by Andre Van Der Avoird (AE Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bobby Daniel (JJ Eindhoven, Netherlands), Erik Jan Lous (KE Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Jagruth Prasanna Kumar (AK Geldrop, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation-sensitive device is disclosed. The device comprises a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and circuitry configured to adapt a read-out rate of the plurality of SPADs in relation to an intensity of incident radiation. Also disclosed is an associated...