US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on May 13 for "Photosensitive sensor and corresponding optical signal acquisition method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,011, issued on May 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Photosensitive sensor and corresponding optical signal acquisition method" was invented by Frederic Lalanne (Bernin, France) and Pierre Malinge (Bernin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensitive sensor is capable of operating in a global shutter mode and in a rolling shutter mode. The sensor includes at least one pixel with a photosensitive region configured to photogenerate charges. A first transfer gate is configured to transfer photogenerated charges from the photosensitive region to a transfer node. A source-follower transis...