US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 11 for "Photon count identification system, photon count identification method, and photon count identification processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,171, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Photon count identification system, photon count identification method, and photon count identification processing program" was invented by Takafumi Higuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Teruo Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Mao Nakajima (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Katsuhiro Nakamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon number resolving system includes: a plurality of pixels of which each includes a photoelectric conversion element and an amplifier for amplifying the electric charges converted by the photoelectric conversion element and converti...