US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Sept. 8 for "Anti-blooming control in overflow image sensor pixel" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,271, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Anti-blooming control in overflow image sensor pixel" was invented by Daniel Tekleab (San Jose, Calif.), Bartosz Piotr Banachowicz (San Jose, Calif.) and Manuel H. Innocent (Wezemaal, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anti-blooming control in overflow image sensor pixel. At least one example is an image sensor pixel comprising: a photodetector positioned in a semiconductor substrate; a gate oxide layer positioned on the semiconductor substrate; a floating diffusion; a transfer gate positioned on the gate oxide layer; a first ant...