ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,468, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Image sensor architectures that employ multi-potential dynamic substrate biasing" was invented by Ritu Raj Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), John L. Orlowski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Oray O. Cellek (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ashirwad Bahukhandi (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a set of one or more substrate portions. Each substrate portion of the set of one or more substrate portions is electrically isolated from other substrate portions of the set of substrate port...