US Patent Issued to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt on Nov. 25 for "TDI line sensor and method for operating a TDI line sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,808, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. (Bonn, Germany).

"TDI line sensor and method for operating a TDI line sensor" was invented by David Krutz (Bonn, Germany) and Kristian Manthey (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method and a TDI line sensor having n TDI lines, at least one readout electronics unit and a circuit arrangement. The period of the CCD control signals is an integer multiple of a system period, with all TDI lines controlled with the same CCD control signal. The TDI line sensor is configured such that an optimum period of the CCD control signals is ca...