ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,163, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Low-power/small-area current-mode pixel readout circuit" was invented by Vladimir Koifman (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Anatoli Mordakhay (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a pixel-circuit and a readout circuit. The pixel-circuit is configured to (i) transfer a reset charge of a photodetector to a storage node upon being reset, (ii) generate a reset output voltage according to the reset charge, (iii) accumulate electrical charge in the photodetector in response to incident light, (iv) transfer the accumulated electrical cha...