ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,316, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Taiji Noda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a pixel region including an amplifying transistor that includes a first gate and that outputs a signal voltage corresponding to an amount of signal charge, a first peripheral region including at least one first peripheral transistor including a second gate, the first peripheral region being located outside the pixel region, and a semiconductor substrate provided with the amplifying transistor and the at least one ...