US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 19 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,316, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Hideaki Togashi (Kumamoto, Japan) and Nobuhiro Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A read-out speed is increased. A solid-state imaging device (100) according to an embodiment is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (PD3) arrayed in a matrix, and each of the photoelectric conversion elements includes: a first electrode and a second electrode (112, 117) that are disposed such that principal planes thereof ...