Patents by Inventor Bernard Kosicki

Bernard Kosicki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry
    Publication number: 20050012033
    Abstract: A photon-counting Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode intensity imaging array includes an array of pixels, each having an avalanche photodiode. A pixel senses an avalanche event and stores, in response to the sensed avalanche event, a single bit digital value therein. An array of accumulators are provided such that each accumulator is associated with a pixel. A row decoder circuit addresses a pixel row within the array of pixels. A bit sensing circuit converts a precharged capacitance into a digital value during read operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Alvin Stern, Brian Aull, Bernard Kosicki, Robert Reich, Bradley Felton, David Shaver, Andrew Loomis, Douglas Young
  • Integrated electronic shutter for charge-coupled devices
    Patent number: 5270558
    Abstract: A charge-coupled device having an array of pixel elements formed in a substrate, which device is operable in a first state to expand the depletion well regions of each pixel element into the substrate for storing incoming photoelectrons therein and in a second state to contract the expanded depletion well regions to prevent storage of photoelectrons in the contracted depletion well regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Robert K. Reich, Bernard Kosicki, Eugene D. Savoye