ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,958, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods for operating hybrid image sensors having different CIS-to-EVS resolutions" was invented by Tiejun Dai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Bo Mu (San Jose, Calif.), Menghan Guo (Shanghai), Wenlei Yang (Shanghai), Qinyi Wang (West Coast Vale, Singapore) and Andreas Suess (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for operating hybrid image sensors having different CIS-to-EVS resolutions (and associated systems, devices, and methods) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes a hybrid image sensor including (a)...