US Patent Issued to Raytheon on April 29 for "Artifact mitigation in capacitor transimpedance amplifier (CTIA)-based imagers or other imaging devices" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,554, issued on April 29, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Artifact mitigation in capacitor transimpedance amplifier (CTIA)-based imagers or other imaging devices" was invented by Bryan W. Kean (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a photodetector configured to generate an electrical current based on received illumination. The apparatus also includes a capacitor transimpedance amplifier (CTIA) unit cell having (i) an amplifier configured to receive the electrical current and a first reference voltage and generate a pre-integration voltage, (ii) a feedback capacitor coupled in parallel across the am...