US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 16 for "Photodetector to suppress a trapping of charges in photodiodes in imaging applications" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,725, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Photodetector to suppress a trapping of charges in photodiodes in imaging applications" was invented by Abhishek Kumar (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector (100) for medical imaging applications, in particular computer tomography applications, is provided. The photodetector (100) comprises a photodiode array (100a) having a plurality of photodiodes (110). Each has a bulk sensitive area (111) comprising amorphous state material and a periphery (112) at photo-lithographically defined edges (112) of the photodiod...