ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,976, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Image capture device and method of manufacturing such a device" was invented by Francois Templier (Grenoble Cedex, France), Josep Segura Puchades (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Fabrice Casset (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including: a transfer substrate including electric connection elements; and a plurality of elementary chips bonded and electrically connected to the transfer substrate, each elementary chip including at least one photodetector and an electronic circuit for reading from the ...