US Patent Issued to AMS on March 18 for "Sensor device, sensor module, imaging system and method to operate a sensor device" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,631, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMS AG (Premstatten, Austria).

"Sensor device, sensor module, imaging system and method to operate a sensor device" was invented by Robert Kappel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device is provided and includes an array of photodetectors. A readout circuit is connected to the array of photodetectors and provides dedicated readout paths for each photodetector in the array, respectively. Further, the readout circuit includes at least one control terminal. An array of time-to-digital converters is electrically connected to converter output terminals of the readout ...