US Patent Issued to Sony Group on March 31 for "Solid-state imaging device, drive method thereof and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,517, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state imaging device, drive method thereof and electronic apparatus" was invented by Taiichiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiro Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideo Kido (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromasa Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Mabuchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuko Ohgishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; a plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal...