ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,955, issued on March 4, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Ryoji Ando (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a first substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate electric charges by photoelectric conversion and a signal line to which a signal based on the electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit is output and a second substrate provided with a supply unit configured to supply a voltage to the signal line so that a voltage of the signal line does not fall below a predetermined voltage a...