US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 1 for "Imaging element and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,265, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element and imaging apparatus" was invented by Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, Japan), Yoshinori Furuta (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuya Oda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes plural pixels in each of which a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge holding unit that holds charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in a first direction, the plural pixels include a first pixel, in the photoelectric conversion unit of the first pixel, a light-receiving region and a light shielding region are arranged in a ...