US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 1 for "Imaging device including a photoelectric converter and a capacitive element having a dielectric film sandwiched between electrodes and a mode switching transistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,266, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device including a photoelectric converter and a capacitive element having a dielectric film sandwiched between electrodes and a mode switching transistor" was invented by Masashi Murakami (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan), Yutaka Abe (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Matsunaga (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Sato (Osaka, Japan) and Junji Hirase (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system including a lens; and an imaging device that receives a light through the lens. The imaging device includes: a semi...