US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Sept. 2 for "Image sensors having high dynamic range pixels" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,954, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image sensors having high dynamic range pixels" was invented by Sergey Velichko (Boise, Idaho), Manuel H. Innocent (Wezemaal, Belgium) and Richard Mauritzson (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each imaging pixel may include a photodiode, an overflow capacitor, an overflow transistor that is interposed between the photodiode and the overflow capacitor, a floating diffusion region, a transfer transistor that is interposed between the photo...