US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) on Nov. 18 for "Ambient light sensor having common centroid layout" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,203, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Ambient light sensor having common centroid layout" was invented by Jeffrey M. Raynor (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A common centroid ambient light sensor includes a matrix of photodiodes having exactly a first row and a second row, at least three color channels, a readout circuit of the first color channel connected to exactly one photodiode in the first row and exactly one photodiode in the second row, and a readout circuit of the second color channel connected to exactly one photodiode in th...