US Patent Issued to FAIRCHILD IMAGING on Aug. 11 for "Pixel architecture with reduced dark current" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,167, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FAIRCHILD IMAGING INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Pixel architecture with reduced dark current" was invented by Hung T. Do (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen W. Mims (San Diego), Khai Nguyen (Stockton, Calif.) and Paul G. Lim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A given pixel of a pixel array is controlled to switch between operation modes to reduce dark current during charge transfer. The charge may be transferred from a sensing node at a gate terminal of a source follower. In an example, a mode select block is used to change the power voltage level applied to a terminal of the source follower ...