ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,301, issued on March 24, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Detector architecture using photodetector substrates and semiconductor devices" was invented by Arundhuti Ganguly (San Jose, Calif.), Ivan P. Mollov (Mountain View, Calif.) and Richard E. Colbeth (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a method, comprising: providing a semiconductor substrate including photodetectors on a first side of the substrate; attaching at least one semiconductor device to the first side of the semiconductor substrate; attaching a back support plate to the semiconductor substrate over the at leas...