US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Solid-state imaging device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,143, issued on March 31, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Shoji Kawahito (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes: a light source; a green pixel, a red pixel, and a blue pixel configured to each generate a charge corresponding to visible light; a near-infrared pixel configured to generate a charge corresponding to near-infrared light; and a gate driver circuit configured to supply, to the green pixel, the red pixel, the blue pixel, and the near-infrared pixel, a first transfer control pulse to contro...