US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on July 8 for "Pixel designs with reduced LOFIC reset and settling times" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,098, issued on July 8, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pixel designs with reduced LOFIC reset and settling times" was invented by Zhe Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Chengcheng Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dennis Tunglin Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Tiejun Dai (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixel designs with reduced LOFIC reset and settling times are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a pixel cell includes a photosensor configured to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light, a floating diffusion to receive the image charge from the photosensor, a transfer transistor coupl...