US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on June 16 for "Optical sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,352, issued on June 16, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Optical sensor" was invented by Jun Hiramitsu (Hamamatsu, Japan), Mitsuhito Mase (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akihiro Shimada (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hiroaki Ishii (Hamamatsu, Japan), Toshinori Ito (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuma Tanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor includes an avalanche multiplication region including a first multiplication region having a first conductive type and a second multiplication region having a second conductive type, each of the first multiplication region and the second multiplication region being fo...