US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 4 for "Solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment including shared pixel units" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,342, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment including shared pixel units" was invented by Shinji Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging element that includes shared pixel units that are disposed adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction and configured to allow a plurality of pixels to share an FD section and an amplification transistor. The shared pixel units each include a first selection transistor and a second selection transistor. The first selection transistor connects t...