US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 3 for "Light reception element and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,702, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light reception element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yuji Isogai (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light reception element and an electronic apparatus in which leakage current can be reduced to decrease current consumption are provided. The light reception element includes a pixel array section. The pixels each include two taps that detect an electric charge obtained through photoelectric conversion by a photoelectric conversion section. A flat regio...