US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on March 24 for "Solid-state imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,757, issued on March 24, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Makoto Ikuma (Hyogo, Japan), Yutaka Abe (Osaka, Japan), Takayasu Kito (Osaka, Japan), Norihiko Sumitani (Osaka, Japan) and Kenji Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel circuit that outputs a plurality of pixel signals, a detection circuit, and a signal processor. The pixel circuit includes a photodiode, a transfer transistor that reads out a signal of the photodiode to a charge storage, and a storage capacitance that stores a charge ove...