ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,039, issued on May 20, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).
"Light sensor" was invented by Cedric Tubert (Saint-Egreve, France) and Matteo Maria Vignetti (Aix les Bains, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment light sensor includes an array of pixels arranged in rows and in columns. Each pixel comprises a photodiode, a sense node coupled to the photodiode, and an initialization transistor connected to the sense node. N successive pixels of a column or of a row are associated, where N is greater than or equal to 2. The initializatio...