US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on June 23 for "Image acquisition device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,745, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Image acquisition device" was invented by Laurent Gay (Lumbin, France), Magali Gregoire (Crolles, France), Bilel Saidi (Grenoble, France), Sylvain Joblot (Domarin, France) and Benjamin Vianne (Le Cheylas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes photodetection pixels formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate. An interconnection network coats a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The interconnection network includes a level of conductive vias in contact, by their lower surface, with the photodetection pi...