ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,242, issued on April 29, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKMICRO SENSING TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (China).

"Readout circuit of infrared focal plane array and control method therefor" was invented by Jun Liu (Hangzhou, China), Jia He (Hangzhou, China) and Mengdi Song (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A readout circuit of infrared focal plane array (FPA) and a control method therefor. The readout circuit is connected to an infrared FPA, which comprises a plurality of pixels. The readout circuit comprises an integral and readout unit, a correction unit and a digital control unit. For each pixel, the correction unit determines an initi...