US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Imaging element and imaging device having a polygonal transfer gate opening" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,274, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and imaging device having a polygonal transfer gate opening" was invented by Tatsuya Takano (Oita, Japan), Kentaro Eda (Oita, Japan), Shintaro Okujo (Oita, Japan) and Kuniaki Utsumi (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge transfer path of a transfer transistor constituted by a vertical transistor is reduced. An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge holding unit, a charge transfer unit, and an image signal generation unit. The photoelectric conversion unit is disposed on a semiconduct...