ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,398, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Hironori Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Masagaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an imaging device capable of further suppressing noise in a pixel signal. An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate (30) that includes a photoelectric conversion portion (31) configured to photoelectrically convert incident light, or a charge holding portion (32) configured to hold charge photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion portion; a field effect transistor provid...