US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 29 for "Pixel array readout circuitry" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,556, issued on April 29, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Pixel array readout circuitry" was invented by Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain) and Senthil Velan (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array. The image sensor pixel array may include active image sensor pixels and non-active image sensor pixels. A line of image sensor pixels may be coupled to readout circuitry. The readout circuitry may use reset level signals from some of the image sensor pixels to obtain a digital average reset level value and may use the di...