US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on Feb. 24 for "Image sensor with pixel matrix and microlens matrix having differing pitches from each other" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,851, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Image sensor with pixel matrix and microlens matrix having differing pitches from each other" was invented by Lucie Dilhan (Grenoble, France) and Jerome Vaillant (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image sensor including a plurality of pixels formed in and on a semiconductor substrate and arranged in a matrix with N rows and M columns, with N being an integer greater than or equal to 1 and M an integer greater than or equal to 2. A plurality of microlenses face the substrate, and each of the...