US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 8 for "Solid-state imaging element and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,100, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and imaging apparatus" was invented by Kazutoshi Tomita (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuyuki Yonezawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Parit Kanjanavirojkul (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of the present disclosure improves an image quality in a solid-state imaging element that amplifies a voltage for every column.In the solid-state imaging element, an input transistor outputs, from a drain, an output voltage corresponding to a voltage between a source and a gate to w...