US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on March 25 for "Pixel reading device and pixel reading method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,135, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pixel reading device and pixel reading method" was invented by Min Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chi-Ting Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel reading device, which includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a voltage generating circuit, and an analog front-end (AFE) circuit, is provided. A first terminal of the first capacitor is coupled to a fingerprint sensing pixel to receive a sensing voltage. A first terminal of the second capacitor is coupled to a second terminal of the first capacitor. The voltage generating...