US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Feb. 17 for "Imaging element and electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,833, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and electronic device" was invented by Shunsuke Kasashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging element and an electronic device capable of arranging pixels having different sizes efficiently. Provided are a first photoelectric converter that generate a charge corresponding to a light amount, and a second photoelectric converter having a smaller light receiving area than the first photoelectric converter, in which the first photoelectric converter has an L shape in plan ...