US Patent Issued to SRI International on March 17 for "Multiresolution imager for night vision" (New Jersey, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,757, issued on March 17, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multiresolution imager for night vision" was invented by Rui Zhu (Princeton, N.J.), Peter Alan Levine (West Windsor, N.J.) and John Robertson Tower (Poinciana, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor having a set of pixels making up the image sensor to capture an image. Two or more pixels in the set of pixels each have an architecture that includes multiple photodiodes configurable to form an individual pixel. A control system can cooperate with the multiple photodiodes to form the individual pixel. Each of the multiple photodiodes can have...