US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 8 for "Solid-state imaging element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,641, issued on April 8, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Daisuke Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Moue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshio Awatani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid-state imaging element provided with a comparator for each column, responsiveness of the comparator is improved.An input transistor outputs, from a drain, a potential within a range from one side to the other side of a pair of output potentials on the basis of whether or not an input potential input to a source and a predetermined refer...