US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on March 11 for "Single bitline SRAM pixel and method for driving the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,299, issued on March 11, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Single bitline SRAM pixel and method for driving the same" was invented by Qing Qin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hoon Ryu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel bit storage circuit includes a first voltage supply line, a second voltage supply line, a bit line, a latch, a first switching transistor, and a blocking transistor. The latch includes an input and an output. The first switching transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The first switching transistor is operative to provide a conductive p...