US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 14 for "Image element readout circuitry, image element, and image element readout method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,117, issued on April 14, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Image element readout circuitry, image element, and image element readout method" was invented by Johannes Solhusvik (Stuttgart, Germany) and Yorito Sakano (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally pertains to image element readout circuitry configured to: sense an amount of electric carriers in a photosensitive element, wherein the photosensitive element is configured to generate the electric carriers in response to light being incident on the photosensitive element; and read the electric carriers ...