US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT), STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on June 24 for "Pixel with an improved quantum efficiency having a micro-lens and a diffractive structure" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,641, issued on June 24, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain) and STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Pixel with an improved quantum efficiency having a micro-lens and a diffractive structure" was invented by Raul Andres Bianchi (Myans, France), Marios Barlas (Grenoble, France), Alexandre Lopez (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Bastien Mamdy (Le Versoud, France), Bruce Rae (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Isobel Nicholson (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a pixel comprising: a photodiode comprising a portion of a sub...