US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2), STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for processing a histogram output from a detector sensor" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,257, issued on July 22, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for processing a histogram output from a detector sensor" was invented by John Kevin Moore (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Sam Lee (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Pascal Mellot (Lans en Vercors, France), Donald Baxter (Stirling, Great Britain), Stuart McLeod (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Kenneth Dargan (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a histogram output from a detector sensor, and calculating a med...