US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Global shutter pixel with vertically integrated multi-phase charge transfer" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,734, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Global shutter pixel with vertically integrated multi-phase charge transfer" was invented by Jiaju Ma (Arcadia, Calif.) and Arnaud Laflaquiere (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include a plurality of pixels, each of which may include a photodiode having a charge accumulation region ("PD"), a floating diffusion region ("FD"), and a charge transfer region vertically between the PD and FD. The vertical charge transfer region may include a first charge modulation region ("P1"), a second charge modulation region ("P2"), and a third charge mo...