ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,061, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sick IVP AB (Linkoping, Sweden).

"Method and arrangements for provision of pixel values for readout from an image sensor" was invented by Mattias Johannesson (Linkoping, Sweden) and Johan Melander (Linkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and arrangements (431; 433; 1000), for provision of pixel values for readout from pixels of an image sensor (431). It is obtained (501) information indicating a threshold pixel value and a window at, or around, maximum, WAM, width (257; 357; 657) corresponding to a number of pixels. Pixels of the image sensor (431) are exposed whereby the expo...