G01T 1/248
Silicon photomultipliers [sipm]
Official title: {Silicon photomultipliers [SiPM], e.g. an avalanche photodiode [APD] array on a common Si substrate}
G01T1/248 (Silicon photomultipliers [sipm]) appears on 173 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01T- Granted patents
- 173
- Published applications
- 201
- Assignees
- 110
- Inventors
- 398
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 9 | 9 |
| 2026 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Semiconductor digital photomultiplier photon counter and imager and related technology4 Aug 2026US 12,701,340 B2
- Systems and methods for time of flight positron emission tomography30 Jun 2026US 12,669,624 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- In-situ beta-particle detector for high resolution 234th export measurements12 May 2026US 12,625,282 B2University of South Carolina
- Imaging system with silicon photomultipliers and method for operating thereof12 May 2026US 12,625,286 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Photon detector, detector device and imaging apparatus17 Mar 2026US 12,578,487 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Detector, Measurement Device, and Charged Particle Beam Apparatus6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227531 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Semiconductor x-ray detector with light emitting layer and fiber optic plate21 May 2026US 2026/0140271 A1
- Electronic system for sensing electromagnetic radiation12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043929 A1
- Device for estimating the activity of a radioactive liquid14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258305 A1Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Uninterrupted cooling system for a diagnostic medical imaging apparatus31 Jul 2025US 2025/0241606 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for allowing avalanche photodiode based single-photon detectors to be driven by the same electrical circuit in gated and in free-running modes116US 9,246,041 B1Id Quantique SA · 2016
- Integrated circuit comprising an array of single photon avalanche diodes89US 7,547,872 B2Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne · 2009
- Time to digital converter and applications thereof70US 9,639,063 B2STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited · 2017
- CMOS SPAD array with mixed timing pick-off for time-of-flight positron emission tomography65US 9,442,201 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · 2016
- Position-sensitive readout modes for digital silicon photomultiplier arrays62US 9,176,241 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V. · 2015