US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Oct. 14 for "Solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,750, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and electronic device" was invented by Takashi Machida (Tokyo) and Kazuyoshi Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, and an electronic device capable of switching FD conversion efficiency in all pixels of a solid-state image sensor. A photodiode performs photoelectric conversion on incident light. A floating diffusion (FD) stores charge obtained by the photodiode. FD2, which is a second FD to which the capacity of an additional c...