ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,743, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element, electronic device, and imaging method" was invented by Kazutoshi Kodama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging capable of obtaining information regarding an object regardless of a motion state of the object is disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging element includes photoelectric conversion elements that perform photoelectric conversion to generate a photoelectric conversion signal; and a generation unit that generates a first signal in a case where an amount of change of a photoelectric conversi...