US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on June 16 for "Image sensor with asynchronous sampling for improved frame rate" (British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,628, issued on June 16, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image sensor with asynchronous sampling for improved frame rate" was invented by Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain), Mukesh Rao Engla Syam (Bangalore, India) and Jeffery Beck (Philomath, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an image sensor having a pixel array is provided. The method can include outputting a row control signal to a row of pixels in the pixel array at a first time, sampling a first output signal from a first pixel in the row of pixels at a second time, and sampling a second output sig...