ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,553, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Time gated pixel with HDR capability" was invented by Manuel H. Innocent (Wezemaal, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to enhanced time gated imaging in a manner that provides high dynamic range (HDR) functionality to a time gated pixel. An overflow path is provided for an integration node of a time-gated pixel, so that when the integration node saturates the excess charge flows to a low gain capacitor, creating readout signals from the integration node and the low gain capacitor, in order to obtain an HDR ...