US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Oct. 14 for "Opto-electronic device for detecting and localizing objects for LIDAR applications" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,332, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Opto-electronic device for detecting and localizing objects for LIDAR applications" was invented by Delfo Nunziato Sanfilippo (Catania, Italy) and Piero Fallica (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an opto-electronic device of semiconductor material formed in a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a thickness and accommodating at least one deep region of a second conductivity type. The deep region forms a PN junction with the semiconductor layer. The deep region has a depth gre...