US Patent Issued to NIKON on Sept. 23 for "Image sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,752, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor" was invented by Ryoji Ando (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Watanabe (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate an electric charge; a holding unit that holds the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first transfer path that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumu...