US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 29 for "Solid-state imaging element and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,546, issued on April 29, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and electronic device" was invented by Masamune Hamamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiko Miyanohara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid-state imaging element that measures a distance, miniaturization of pixels is facilitated. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array unit and a photon number detection unit. In the solid-state imaging element including the pixel array unit and the photon number detection unit, the pixel array unit is provided with a plurality of pixels that gener...