ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,103, issued on April 7, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Filtering device, associated system and method" was invented by Cedric Tubert (Saint-Egreve, France), Jeremie Teyssier (Grenoble, France), Gregory Roffet (Coublevie, France) and Stephane Drouard (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving data signals from a plurality of pixels of an array of pixels; generating a plurality of signal-to-noise ratios by determining signal-to-noise ratios for each respective pixel of the plurality of pixels on the basis of the data signals received from the respective pixel;...