US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Time-of-flight sensor and method for fabricating a time-of-flight sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,687, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Time-of-flight sensor and method for fabricating a time-of-flight sensor" was invented by Hans Taddiken (Munich), Dirk Offenberg (Dresden, Germany), Trinath Reddy Pinnapa (Dresden, Germany) and Steffen RothenhauBer (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight sensor includes at least one pixel, including: a Si-based photocurrent collecting structure and a Ge-based photosensitive structure epitaxially grown on the photocurrent collecting structure, wherein the photocurrent collecting structure includes an n-doped region and a p...