US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on Dec. 2 for "Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,001, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yoshihisa Fujimori (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuhiro Kosaka (Shiga, Japan), Takeshi Sowa (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuaki Sogawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array that is quadrilateral and includes pixels arranged in rows and columns, where each of the pixels accumulates an electric charge resulting from photoelectric conversion. The pixel array includes: a first area including first pixels for obtaining a captured image; and a sec...