US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Low-power/small-area pixel readout with reciprocal response" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,074, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Low-power/small-area pixel readout with reciprocal response" was invented by Vladimir Koifman (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Tiberiu Galambos (Binyamina, 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 includes a photodetector configured to accumulate electrical charge in response to incident light and to transfer the electrical charge to a storage node. The readout circuit is configured to (i) charge a capacitance with a charge current that depends on the electrical charge in the storage node ...