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Article: Patent No. 7,609,311 Issued on Oct. 27, Assigned to Andor Technology for Automatic Calibration (British Inventor)
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- November 4, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 4 -- Donal Denvir, Belfast, Great Britain, has developed an automatic calibration of electron multiplying ccds. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,609,311 on Oct. 27.
The patent has been assigned to Andor Technology PLC, Belfast.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the gain of an electron multiplier, especially in an Electron Multiplying Charge Coupled Device (EMCCD). The electron multiplier multiplies, in use, signals received from a device, typically a CCD, comprising photodetectors. A test signal is input to the electron multiplier from the device, and the gain of the electron multiplier is ...