US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 30 for "Solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,370, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment" was invented by Tatsuya Okawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Satake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging element having an array of light receiving pixels is disclosed. A light receiving pixel includes a pair of photoelectric conversion units, a first separation region, and a second separation region. The pair of photoelectric conversion units is disposed adjacent to each other and has a shared floating diffusion (FD). The first separation region surrounds the pair o...