US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 14 for "Pixel structure and image sensor including a nano antenna unit" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,337, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Pixel structure and image sensor including a nano antenna unit" was invented by Liang Yang (Beijing), Yongjun Liu (Beijing) and Hui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel structure and an image sensor are provided, to improve photoelectric conversion efficiency under a weak light condition and resolve a problem that an image generated in weak light is dim. The pixel structure includes a metallic ground plane, and a substrate unit cell located on the metallic ground plane. The pixel structure further includes a nano antenna unit tha...