US Patent Issued to FAIRCHILD IMAGING on April 29 for "Image sensor with charge transfer between pixels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,549, issued on April 29, was assigned to FAIRCHILD IMAGING INC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image sensor with charge transfer between pixels" was invented by Xianmin Yi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Alexander Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Carol Zhao (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensor systems are disclosed that allow for charge transfer between pixels of a group included in a pixel array with a single digital readout of the accumulated charge from the group. Each of the pixels within a given group includes a photodetector. One or more pump gates are arranged between adjacent pixels of the given group to allow charge to be pumped...