US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Sept. 8 for "Active imaging system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,201, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Active imaging system" was invented by Josep Segura Puchades (Grenoble, France), Anis Daami (Grenoble, France) and Laurent Frey (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels (Pix), each comprising an elementary photodetector (211), wherein each pixel (Pix) comprises a circuit (201, 203) for detecting a beat frequency of a portion of a heterodyne beam received by the elementary photodetector (211) of the pixel, and wherein, in each pixel (Pix), the detection circuit (201, 2...