US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 25 for "Signal processing circuit, and light detecting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,773, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Signal processing circuit, and light detecting device" was invented by Riku Shimada (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takuya Fujita (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takashi Baba (Hamamatsu, Japan), Shunsuke Adachi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shinya Iwashina (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a signal processing circuit, an input terminal is configured to receive an analog signal output from an avalanche photodiode operating in Geiger mode. A comparison circuit outputs a signal based on a component exceeding a threshold among components a signal input to the compar...