US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2), STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) on Jan. 20 for "Digital to analog converter" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,571, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France) and STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Digital to analog converter" was invented by Christophe Mandier (Fontanil Cornillon, France) and Matteo Maria Vignetti (Aix les Bains, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a DAC that includes: a first pixel including a first transfer gate coupling a memory node of the first pixel and a capacitive sensing node (SN); a second pixel comprising a first transfer gate coupling a memory node of the second pixel and the capacitive SN; a reset transistor co...