US Patent Issued to TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on June 9 for "Multigate in-pixel source follower" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,870, issued on June 9, was assigned to TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Multigate in-pixel source follower" was invented by Eric R. Fossum (Hanover, N.H.) and Wei Deng (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including one or more pixels is provided. At least one of the pixels can include a semiconductor substrate, a floating diffusion formed in the semiconductor substrate, a transfer gate configured to selectively cause transfer of photo-charges stored in the pixel to the floating diffusion, and a multigate source follower. The multigate source follower can include a channel, a source and a drain c...