ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,642, issued on April 8, was assigned to FAIRCHILD IMAGING INC. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dual-mode column amplifier" was invented by Hung Trong Do (San Jose, Calif.), Khai Nguyen (Stockton, Calif.), Stephen W. Mims (San Diego), Alexander Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Kwang Bo Cho (San Jose, Calif.) and Angel Rogelio Lopez (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include an image sensor comprising a pixel array having at least one column of addressable pixel sensors, and a column amplifier coupled to the at least one column of addressable pixel sensors, the column amplifier comprising a transistor bank including a plurality of tran...