ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,817, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Miftek Corp. (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Photon counting and multi-spot spectroscopy" was invented by Masanobu Yamamoto (West Lafayette, Ind.), J. Paul Robinson (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Keegan Hernandez (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system can include a support and two or more sensor elements mounted to the support. Each sensor element can be electrically connected to a common electrical node and may include: a respective quench resistor connected to a respective internal node; and a respective photodiode (PD) connected to the respective internal node; a differentiating elem...