ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,932, issued on June 24, was assigned to VOXELSENSORS SRL (Brussels).
"Neighborhood-gated switching pixel sensor" was invented by Ward Van Der Tempel (Keerbergen, Belgium), Johannes Willem Peeters (Antwerp, Belgium), Andre Bernard Miodezky (Ukkel, Belgium) and Christian Mourad (Genval, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an imaging sensor system (26) having a high detection accuracy. The system (26) comprises a plurality of pixel sensors (1) and at least one light source. The pixel sensors (1) are grouped in clusters, wherein each pixel sensor (1) comprises a photodetector (2) and a local controllin...