ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,971, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Sensor for accumulation signal" was invented by Donghee Yeo (Seoul, South Korea), Junseok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Heejae Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunsurk Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes a determining circuit and an output circuit. The determining circuit receives a first signal from a pixel in response to light and outputs a second signal associated with occurrence of an event, based on the first signal. Based on the second signal being received in a time period between a fi...