US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Feb. 24 for "Level-based fault detection for a row driver of an optical sensor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,476, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Level-based fault detection for a row driver of an optical sensor" was invented by Sundaraiah Gurindagunta (Gollapudi, India) and Revathi Kuruba (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative fault detection system may include an input node, a transport circuit, and a comparison circuit. The input node may electrically connect to a row driver that produces, on the input node, a row driver voltage having one of a plurality of analog voltage levels. The transport circuit may be configured to transport, when the row dr...