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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2007
Applicants:

Lin Ping Ang, Chino Hills, CA (US);

Steven Huang, Arcadia, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lin Ping Ang, Chino Hills, CA (US);

Steven Huang, Arcadia, CA (US);

Assignee:

Forza Silicon, Pasadena, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 1/44 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A chip device with a number of individually powered parts, such as photoreceptors. A mesh is provided to provide power to the individual photoreceptors. The mesh may be provided for ground and power and/or both. The mesh may be on different layers, so that one portion of the mesh is exactly over the other portion of the mesh. The mesh takes up a portion of real estate on the chip in between the individual photoreceptors, in locations where image sensing parts cannot be located. In an embodiment, the mesh can be intentionally broken at various locations to optimize the path length.


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