US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 17 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,766, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Masashi Bando (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a photoelectric conversion section, a first transistor, a floating diffusion layer, a second transistor, a conductive layer, and a wiring layer. The photoelectric conversion section photoelectrically converts incident light and accumulates electric charge. The first transistor transfers the electric charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion section. T...