ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,280, issued on July 21, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).
"Semiconductor light reception" was invented by Arvin Emadi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is set forth herein a device comprising: a detector surface for supporting biological or chemical samples; an array of doped areas formed in a semiconductor formation, wherein the semiconductor formation receives excitation light and emission light from the detector surface, and wherein doped areas of the array of doped areas define photodiodes; a doped region formed in the semiconductor formation in a receive light path of the excitation light and emissi...