ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,883, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging element" was invented by Toshiyuki Nishihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Takahashi (Tokyo), Masao Matsumura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Imoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging element that can reduce noise. The imaging element includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a first amplification element that amplifies a signal from the photoelectric conversion element; a second amplification element that amplifies an output from the first amplification element; an offset eleme...