US Patent Issued to Artilux on June 9 for "Germanium-silicon light sensing apparatus II" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,869, issued on June 9, was assigned to Artilux Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Germanium-silicon light sensing apparatus II" was invented by Yun-Chung Na (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Szu-Lin Cheng (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Shu-Lu Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Han-Din Liu (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Hui-Wen Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Che-Fu Liang (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yuan-Fu Lyu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chien-Lung Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chung-Chih Lin (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Kuan-Chen Chu (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit that includes: a photodiode configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the ...