ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,088, issued on June 24, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Circuitry and methods for mitigating gradient effects in image sensors" was invented by Mukesh Rao Engla Syam (Bangalore, India) 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 pixels and associated delay calibration circuitry for determining an amount of delay for row control signals. The delay calibration circuitry can include circuitry for generating a calibration row control signal, circuitry for propagating the calibration row control signal down a row of ...