US Patent Issued to NIKON on Dec. 23 for "Imaging sensor and imaging device with wirings between portions of signal lines" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,986, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging sensor and imaging device with wirings between portions of signal lines" was invented by Tomoki Hirata (Tokyo), Daiki Ogura (Tokyo), Shigeru Matsumoto (Sagamihara, Japan) and Masahiro Juen (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging sensor including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units provided in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction and configured to generate electric charges through photoelectric conversion; signal lines each of which is wired in the second direction and to which signals based on the...