US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 1 for "Photodetectors for measuring real-time optical irradiance" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,913, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Photodetectors for measuring real-time optical irradiance" was invented by Michael C. McAlpine (Minneapolis), David R. Pearson (Maple Grove, Minn.), Xia Ouyang (Shenzhen, China) and Ruitao Su (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin-wearable photodetector module includes an array with a plurality of photodetectors and a plurality of optical filters, and each photodetector is configured to receive an optical input from an optical filter having a central wavelength in a wavelength range of about 100 nm to about 1000 nm. Each phot...