US Patent Issued to WUHAN XINXIN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 31 for "Active pixel circuit, image sensor, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,148, issued on March 31, was assigned to WUHAN XINXIN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Active pixel circuit, image sensor, and electronic device" was invented by Jun Zhou (Wuhan, China), Peng Sun (Wuhan, China) and Daohong Yang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active pixel circuit, an image sensor and an electronic device are disclosed. The active pixel circuit has a photodiode and at least three MOS transistors. At least one of the MOS transistors serves as a transfer transistor, and at least another one of the MOS transistors serves as a reset transistor. Moreover, at least yet another one of th...