US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Jan. 13 for "Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,551, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" was invented by Golan Zeituni (Stuttgart, Germany) and Noam Zeev Eshel (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit (100) includes a photoelectric conversion circuit (110), an integration capacitor (Cint) and a supplementary circuit (120). The photoelectric conversion circuit (110) generates and outputs a photocurrent (Iphoto). The integration capacitor (Cint) includes a storage electrode (CintS) and a reference electrode (CintR), wherein the reference electrode (CintR) is co...