ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,431, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INIVATION AG (Zurich).

"Event sensor and method for generating a signal stream comprising event data" was invented by Chenghan Li (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event sensor including a pixel array and configured to produce a signal stream comprising event data in reaction to light incident on the pixel array. The event sensor includes: for each pixel of the pixel array a photovoltaic converter and an electronic converter connected to the photovoltaic converter. The photovoltaic converter and the electronic converter are configured to produce and store a digital current ...