US Patent Issued to Sony Group on June 16 for "Solid-state imaging device and recognition system having multiple pixels stacked in the vertical direction" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,344, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state imaging device and recognition system having multiple pixels stacked in the vertical direction" was invented by Kei Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve more secure authentication. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix; and signal processing circuits each of which reads out a signal from each of the unit pixels. Each of the unit pixels includes: a first pixel that is disposed on a first surface and that detects light of a first wavelength band; and a ...