ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,833, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Hidetoshi Oishi (Saga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device reduces noise while suppressing an increase in layout area of transistors included in a readout circuit. This solid-state imaging device includes: a first substrate section; a second substrate section disposed on one side of the first substrate section; a readout circuit; and first and second transistor cells each having, for each readout circuit, a plurality of transistors included in the readout circuit, the first a...