ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,702, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Yuta Nishioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging element includes a first semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor circuit on a first surface of the substrate, a second semiconductor substrate having a second semiconductor circuit on a second surface of the substrate, and a pixel substrate having a pixel circuit on one surface of the substrate, in which the first semiconductor substrate, the second semiconductor substrate, and the pixel substrate are...