US Patent Issued to NIKON on May 6 for "Image sensor and imaging device with photoelectric converters, readout circuits, and transistors" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,791, issued on May 6, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor and imaging device with photoelectric converters, readout circuits, and transistors" was invented by Wataru Funamizu (Yokohama, Japan), Masahiro Juen (Yokohama, Japan) and Atsushi Komai (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a first readout circuit that reads out a first signal, being generated by an electric charge resulting from a photoelectric conversion, to a first signal line; a first holding circuit that holds a voltage based on an electric current from a power supply circuit; and a first electric current source that su...