US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 11 for "Solid-state imaging element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,166, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Yasuhisa Tochigi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Matsumura (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumiaki Sano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsuhiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solid-state imaging element and an imaging device that include a plurality of pixel regions that include a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of first charge storage units corresponding to the respective pixel regions, wherein a plurality of first pixels in the pixel region each include a ph...