Patents

  1. S. Cova
    Active quenching circuit for avalanche photodiodes
    U.S. Patent No. 4,963,727, Date 16 October 1990,
    Italian Patent 22367 A/88 filed October 20, 1988
  2. S. Cova, A. Lacaita, M. Ghioni
    Fotodiodo con soppressione degli effetti legati alla raccolta per diffusione di portatori di carica fotogenerati
    Italian Patent MI92A 002310 filed October 7, 1992
  3. S. Cova, M. Ghioni, F. Zappa
    Circuit for high precision detection of the time of arrival of photons falling on single photon avalanche diodes
    US patent No. 6,384,663 B2, date May 7, 2002 (priority date March 9, 2000)
    European patent application n. 01200851.2-2217, filed March 6, 2001,
    Italian Patent MI2000 A 000467, filed March 9, 2000
  4. F. Zappa, S. Cova, M. Ghioni
    Monolithic circuit of active quenching and active reset for avalanche photodiodes
    US patent 6,541,752 B2, date April 1,2003 (priority date March 9, 2000)
    European patent application n. 01200852.2-2217, filed March 6, 2001,
    Italian Patent MI2000 A 000466, filed March 9, 2000
  5. S. Cova, F. Zappa, M. Ghioni, R. Grub, E. Derndinger, T. Hartmann
    High sensitivity photodetector device with integrated micrometric diaphragm for confocal microscopes
    US patent application n. 10/257,071 filed Oct. 9, 2002
    European patent application n. 01927893.6 filed Oct. 31, 2002
    International application number PCT/EP 01/04008, filed April 9, 2001
    Italian Patent MI2000 A 000765, filed April 10, 2000
  6. F. Zappa, S. Tisa
    Generatore quantistico di numeri casuali e relativo metodo di generazione
    Italian Patent EI.06.024.A, filed December 22, 2006