US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT), STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) on March 25 for "Light sensor" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,273, issued on March 25, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain) and STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Light sensor" was invented by Jeffrey M. Raynor (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Nicolas Moeneclaey (Vourey, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a sensor having pixels, each pixel having photodiodes having each a terminal coupled to a first node associated with the photodiode; and an amplifier having a first part and, for each photodiode, a second part associated with the photodiode. The first part includes an output of the amp...