US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on May 19 for "Image sensors with reduced fixed pattern noise" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,600, issued on May 19, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image sensors with reduced fixed pattern noise" was invented by Stephen James Spinks (Shrivenham, Great Britain), Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain) and Andrew David Talbot (Chieveley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system may include an image sensor with an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Row driver circuitry may be coupled to the pixels and may address a given row of the pixels based on a row address. Row randomization circuitry may be coupled to the row driver circuitry to dither t...