ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,176, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Image sensor and imaging device" was invented by Katsuji Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuhiro Suzuki (Yamagata, Japan), Takuya Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Kunimitsu (Kumamoto, Japan), Kohei Imayoshi (Kumamoto, Japan) and Hironobu Tanigawa (Yamagata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor according to the present technology includes: a semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element is two-dimensionally arranged; and a magnetic detection unit configured to detect a mag...