Patent 11802945 was granted and assigned to Allegro Microsystems, Llc on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and apparatus for a controlling a stimulus source to direct photons to a pixel in a pixel array contained in a detector system, analyzing a response of the pixel in the pixel array; and generating an alert based on the response of the pixel in the pixel array. Example stimulus sources include a conductive trace, a PN junction, and a current source.