ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,218, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Luonghung Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Inada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state imaging elements are disclosed. In one example, an upstream circuit sequentially generates a predetermined reset level and a signal level corresponding to an exposure amount, and causes first and second capacitive elements to hold the reset level and the signal level. A selection circuit sequentially connects one of the capacitive elements to a predetermined downstream node, disconnects both...