US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "Image sensor with stacked pixels having high dynamic range and low noise" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,091, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Image sensor with stacked pixels having high dynamic range and low noise" 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 connected to one of the terminals of the photodiode, a reset transistor c...