ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,781, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Row driver assembly and solid-state imaging device" was invented by Tongxi Wang (Stuttgart, Germany), Manuel Moreno-Garcia (Stuttgart, Germany) and Naoki Kawazu (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row driver assembly includes a row driver unit. The row driver unit includes a buffer circuit that drives a control signal to a pixel circuit. The buffer circuit is electrically connected to a high buffer supply voltage and to a low buffer supply voltage. A voltage converter circuit supplies the low buffer supply voltage to the bu...