US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 12 for "Image sensors with multiple column output lines per column" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,137, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image sensors with multiple column output lines per column" was invented by Andrew David Talbot (Chieveley, Great Britain), Stephen James Spinks (Shrivenham, Great Britain) and Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each column of imaging pixels may include a respective plurality of column output lines. Each column output line may be coupled to a respective subset of the imaging pixels in that column of imaging ...