US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Imaging device and photodetection device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,227, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and photodetection device" was invented by Tomohiro Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an imaging device includes a light-receiving pixel, a first coupling terminal, a first voltage generation circuit, a drive circuit, a reference signal generation circuit, a noise correction circuit, a comparison circuit, and a processing circuit. The light-receiving pixel generates a pixel signal. The drive circuit is configured to drive the light-receiving pixel on the basis of a voltage from the first...