ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,603, issued on March 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Masaya Takahashi (Osaka, Japan) and Kin Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device including a connector conforming to a predetermined standard is enabled to communicate, via the connector, with an external device not including a communication interface of the predetermined standard. The imaging device includes: a connector conforming to a predetermined standard and having a plurality of terminals including a GND terminal; a first communication unit configured to ...