US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on July 29 for "Photodiode comprising a memory area" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,394, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Photodiode comprising a memory area" was invented by Arnaud Tournier (Grenoble, France), Boris Rodrigues Goncalves (Theys, France) and Frederic Lalanne (Bernin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a photodiode including at least one memory area, each memory area including at least two charge storage regions."

The patent was filed on Jan. 29, 2024, under Application No. 18/426,090.

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