US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Aug. 5 for "Device for detecting overflow of charges for backside illumination pixel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,196, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Device for detecting overflow of charges for backside illumination pixel" was invented by Francois Ayel (Grenoble, France) and Olivier Saxod (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor provided with a pixel including a photosensitive region formed in a semiconductor substrate and surrounded by a peripheral isolation trench; a sense node formed on a charge collecting region; a charge transfer gate around the sense node; a well; the pixel being provided with a so-called "detection acceleration" transistor ...