ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,316, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Orbotech Ltd. (Yavne, Israel).
"Multi-modality with TDI sensor" was invented by Avraham Adler (Nof Ayalon, Israel), Avihay Ankry (Rehovot, Israel) and Mikhael Matusovsky (Rishon Lezion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TDI sensor may be a multi-mode TDI sensor. The multi-mode TDI sensor may include active pixel rows, inactive pixel rows, and a readout circuit. The active pixel rows and the inactive pixel rows may alternate in a sequence defining the number of modes for which the multi-mode TDI sensor is configured. The length to which the sample light is scanned before switching between ...