ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,158, issued on July 28, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Optical signal receiving circuit used in an optical sensing apparatus" was invented by Shih-Jou Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Che-Fu Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chien-Lung Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing apparatus includes an optical signal receiving circuit configured to receive a photocurrent signal from an optoelectronic detector and generate a differential voltage signal. The optical signal receiving circuit includes a transimpedance amplifier coupled to the optoelectronic detector and configured to ...