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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,759, issued on March 24, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus" was invented by Takayasu Kito (Osaka, Japan) and Norihiko Sumitani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns; and a relief unit which includes N signal lines and n pixel circuits among the plurality of pixel circuits, N being an integer greater than or equal to 3, n being an integer less than or equal to N. Each of the n pixel circuits is connected to a group of at least two signal lines out ...