ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,483, issued on March 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Sanshiro Shishido (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device including first and second substrate; first and second connection portion electrically connecting the first and second substrate; a first and second pixel; and a common signal line for the first and second pixel. Each of the first and second pixels includes: a photoelectric converter that converts incident light into a signal charge, and a first transistor that outputs a signal corresponding to the signal charge t...