ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,245, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Image sensor" was invented by Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Edward Chapin Guthrie (Charlestown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to imaging systems having functionality for detecting faults in the control and/or readout of the image sensor. In one example, there is a system comprising an image sensor having a plurality of imaging pixels and at least one diagnostic pixel coupled to a reference signal. The system also comprises control and readout circuitry configured t...