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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Verity Instruments, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);

Inventors:

Larry Arlos Bullock, Carrollton, TX (US);

John D. Corless, Carrollton, TX (US);

Richard J. Daignault, Jr., Carrollton, TX (US);

Mark Anthony Meloni, Carrollton, TX (US);

Mike Whelan, Carrollton, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verity Instruments, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/02 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); G01B 11/06 (2006.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01); H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H01L 27/148 (2006.01); H04N 5/347 (2011.01); G01N 21/31 (2006.01); G01N 21/71 (2006.01); G01N 21/17 (2006.01); G01J 3/443 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/022 (2013.01); G01B 11/06 (2013.01); G01N 21/31 (2013.01); G01N 21/71 (2013.01); H01J 49/025 (2013.01); H01L 27/148 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/355 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/372 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/37213 (2013.01); G01J 3/443 (2013.01); G01N 2021/1738 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure provides multimode configurable spectrometers, a method of operating a multimode configurable spectrometer, and an optical monitoring system. In one embodiment the multimode configurable spectrometer includes: (1) an optical sensor configured to receive an optical input and convert the optical input to electrical signals, wherein the optical sensor includes multiple active pixel regions for converting the optical input to the electrical signals, and (2) conversion circuitry, having multiple selectable converting circuits, that is configured to receive and convert the electrical signals to a digital output according to a selected one of the selectable converting circuits.


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