ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,926, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BRILLNICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Isao Takayanagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes: an output buffer part adapted to convert charge at an output node into a voltage signal corresponding to the amount of the charge, and output an active comparison result signal when the voltage signal and a first reference signal are the same level; an output buffer part adapted to convert the charge at the output node into a voltage signal corr...