US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Output circuit for SPAD" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,293, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Output circuit for SPAD" was invented by Tze Ching Fung (Diamond Bar, Calif.), Yibing Michelle Wang (Temple City, Calif.), Hongyu Wang (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Eunchul Kang (South Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output circuit for a single-photon avalanche diode. In some embodiments, a system includes: a first sensing element; a bus line; a first pull-down circuit; a first pull-up element; and a second pull-up element, the first pull-up element, the second pull-up element, and the first pull-down circuit being connect...