US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Methods and apparatus for ambient light sensor with spectral resolution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,485, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for ambient light sensor with spectral resolution" was invented by Abhijeet Paul (San Diego), Mishel Matloubian (San Diego), Ravi Pramod Kumar Vedula (San Diego), Periannan Chidambaram (San Diego) and Hyunchul Jung (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for ambient light sensor with spectral resolution are disclosed. In an aspect, an ambient light sensor comprises a photodiode having a light-facing surface comprising a first n-doped layer, a first p-doped layer disposed below and in contact with the first n-doped layer, a ...