ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,751, issued on Oct. 14, 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 Ken Miyauchi (Tokyo), Hideki Owada (Tokyo), Kazuya Mori (Tokyo) and Isao Takayanagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of selecting a pixel operating mode between a RS mode and a GS mode and switching a conversion gain read-out mode, where signals produced with different conversion gains are read,...