US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Operation method to mitigate lag issue with high k metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,830, issued on July 29, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Operation method to mitigate lag issue with high k metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor" was invented by Yuanliang Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bill Phan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Duli Mao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensors with improved memory effect are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for reducing image lag associated with a pixel included in a plurality of pixels is described. The pixel includes a photodiode, a first floating diffusion coupled to the photodiode through a transfer transistor, a se...