US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Solid-state imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,716, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Ryoto Yoshita (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Machida (Tokyo), Luonghung Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Inada (Tokyo), Yoshimichi Kumagai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Shirakata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid-state imaging element that performs exposure in all pixels at the same time, image quality is improved. A solid-state imaging element includes a previous-stage circuit, a plurality of capacitive elements, a selection circuit, and a subsequent-stage circuit. In the so...