ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,829, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Masahiro Joei (Kanagawa, Japan), Shintarou Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomiyuki Yukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo), Toshihiko Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryotaro Takaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Iwao Yagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichi Murata (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 and a second electrode; a third elec...