ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,396, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Image sensor device" was invented by Dirk Vietzke (Vaterstetten, Germany), Tobias Mono (Dresden, Germany), Stefano Parascandola (Dresden, Germany), Dirk Offenberg (Dresden, Germany) and Alfred Sigl (Sinzing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface. A photodiode is formed in the semiconductor layer and is configured to generate charge carriers based on light reaching the photodiode. A storage node is formed in the semiconductor layer, the storage...