ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,812, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device, imaging method, and program" was invented by Takuya Mitsuhashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Hosotani (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuro Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Syunji Nagao (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Sakaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhito Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Abasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Anai (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Kobayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideo Nomura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method...