ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,404, issued on April 7, was assigned to ams Sensors USA Inc. (Plano, Texas) and ams Sensors Belgium BVBA (Berchem, Belgium).

"Pixel arrangement and method for operating a pixel arrangement" was invented by Adi Xhakoni (Kessel Lo, Belgium), Scott Johnson (Boise, Idaho) and Denver Lloyd (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a pixel arrangement includes a photodiode, a circuit node, a transfer transistor coupled to the photodiode and to the circuit node, an amplifier with an input coupled to the circuit node, a first capacitor and a second capacitor, a first transistor coupled to an output of the amplifier and to...