ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,950, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Shenzhen Vispek Tech Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"On-chip wide UV-VIS-NIR spectral sensor" was invented by Wei Liu (Shenzhen, China), Jianjun Chen (Shenzhen, China), Han Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Wengang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectral sensor that integrates a series of luminescent materials on a specially designed semiconductor substrate, providing full range spectral coverage from about 200 nm to about 1700 nm in wavelength (UVA-UVB-VIS-NIRI-NIRII). Components of this sensor solution include: an architecture on gold-coated ceramic substrate, a series of metal...