US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International, STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on Sept. 29 for "Polarimetric image sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,988, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Plan-les-Quates, Switzerland) and STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Polarimetric image sensor" was invented by Jerome Vaillant (Grenoble, France), Francois Deneuville (Grenoble, France), Axel Crocherie (Grenoble, France) and Alain Ostrovsky (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a polarimetric image sensor formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate, the second comprising a plurality of pixels, each comprising: -a photosensitive region formed in the semiconductor substrate; -a diff...