ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,478, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Katsunori Hiramatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Shintaro Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuya Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a first semiconductor substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion element, floating diffusion that temporarily holds a charge output from the photoelectric conversion element, and a transfer transistor that transfers the charge...