ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,112, issued on April 14, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor circuit, imaging device, and electronic device" was invented by Shigemitsu Murayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhide Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor circuit that includes a first transistor that switches whether to acquire an input signal into a first node, a second transistor having at least one of a source and a drain that are connected to the first node, and a third transistor that switches whether the first node and a second node are to be electrically short-circuited or ...