US Patent Issued to NIKON on Oct. 20 for "Imaging element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,965, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Shutaro Kato (Kawasaki, Japan), Osamu Saruwatari (Yokohama, Japan) and Wataru Funamizu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate having a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, each pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light to an electric charge, a retention unit that retains the electric charge, a first transfer unit that transfers the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit to the retention unit, a...