US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 23 for "Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,174, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" was invented by Diederik Paul Moeys (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit (300) includes a photoreceptor circuit block (PR) configured to generate a photoreceptor signal. An analog-to-digital converter stage (500) is configured to compare a first input photoreceptor signal with at least one first threshold voltage and to compare a second input photoreceptor signal with at least one second threshold voltage. An electronic switch assembly (310) is configured to pass th...