ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,621, issued on July 8, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS (Grenoble, France).
"Ambient light sensor" was invented by Vratislav Michal (Fontanil-Cornillon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit can be used for reading out a light sensor. The circuit includes an operational amplifier. A first capacitor has a first electrode coupled to an inverting input of the operational amplifier and a second electrode coupled to a non-inverting output of the operational amplifier. A compensation circuit is coupled between the operational amplifier and the first capacitor. A preset circuit has an input coupled to a first voltage n...