ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,055, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Image sensor with stacked pixels including charge sharing gates" was invented by Vladimir Koifman (Rishon LeZion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a logic die, including column readout circuits and bitlines connected to the column readout circuits. A sensor die is overlaid on the logic die. The image sensor includes an array of detector elements, each including a sensing circuit on the sensor die, which includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion node a charge sharing transistor coupled between the photodiode and the floating diffus...