ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,092, issued on June 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Junji Hirase (Osaka, Japan), Takayoshi Yamada (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a photoelectric converter that generates charge through photoelectric conversion; a charge accumulator in which the charge is accumulated; and a metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor including a first terminal, a second terminal, a gate, an oxide layer, and at least one semiconductor region. During exposure, the first terminal is electrica...