US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2), STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on June 9 for "Indirect time of flight sensor and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,498, issued on June 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Indirect time of flight sensor and method" was invented by Cedric Tubert (Saint-Egreve, France), Pierre Malinge (Bernin, France) and Matteo Maria Vignetti (Aix les Bains, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a sensor and method. Each pixel of the sensor comprises assemblies each including a memory area and a transfer device coupling the memory area to a photoconversion area, and a device for resetting the memory areas. The sensor includes a first circ...