ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,684, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Saito (Tokyo), Masashi Bando (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukio Kaneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiki Moriwaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode including a plurality of electrodes; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material provided between the ...