ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,443, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element with output circuit that outputs to first and second circuits, imaging apparatus, image data output method, and program" was invented by Ryo Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan), Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, Japan) and Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes: a processing circuit that performs analog/digital conversion on captured image data; a memory that is capable of storing the captured image data obtained as a result of performing the analog/digital conversion by the processing circuit; and an output circuit that...