US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on May 19 for "Imaging device comprising capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,280, issued on May 19, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Imaging device comprising capacitor" was invented by Kei Takahashi (Isehara, Japan) and Naoto Kusumoto (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device that generates, in a pixel, a potential higher than a potential to be supplied to the pixel is provided. The imaging device includes a pixel including a first circuit and a second circuit; the second circuit includes a photoelectric conversion device; the first circuit is electrically connected to the second circuit; the first circuit has a function of adding a first potent...