US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 1 for "Imaging device and method for driving the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,884, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device and method for driving the same" was invented by Yoshihiro Sato (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Nishitani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first transistor provided on the semiconductor substrate and including a first gate electrode, a source, and a drain. The semiconductor substrate includes a first well region of a second conductivity type, a second well region of a first conductivity type different from the second conductivity type, a first impu...