US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 3 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus including light condensing optical system for reducing parasitic light sensitivity" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,704, issued on March 3, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus including light condensing optical system for reducing parasitic light sensitivity" was invented by Takashi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes, in an effective pixel region extending along a first surface, a condensing optical system that condenses incident light, a photoelectric conversion unit that generates electric charge through photoelectric conversion, an electric charge holding unit that holds the electric charge transferred from...