ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,044, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging apparatus and electronic apparatus" was invented by Tetsuya Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryoji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisahiro Ansai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichi Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukari Takeya (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotoshi Nomura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiharu Kudoh (Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Ohura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shin Iwabuchi (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a imaging device in...