US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 9 for "Imaging device including photoelectric converters and capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,628, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device including photoelectric converters and capacitor" was invented by Sanshiro Shishido (Osaka, Japan), Masashi Murakami (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device including a semiconductor substrate; a first photoelectric converter that is located in the semiconductor substrate and that generates a first signal charge by photoelectric conversion; a first node to which the first signal charge is input; a capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the first node...