ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,991, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SMARTSENS TECHNOLOGY (HK) Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Imaging device, pixel and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yaowu Mo (Shanghai), Zhibin Xiong (Shanghai), Chen Xu (Shanghai) and Zexu Shao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, a pixel and a method thereof. The imaging device comprises: a pixel array, which comprises multiple pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein at least one pixel comprises multiple subpixels, and the multiple subpixels share one floating diffusion region; and a control circuit, which controls th...