ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,648, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device, vehicle control system, and control method for solid-state imaging device" was invented by Makoto Kawada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes an analog-to-digital converter, a signal processing circuit, and a scan test circuit. The analog-to-digital converter generates a digital signal within a predetermined video period. The signal processing circuit performs predetermined signal processing on the digital signal during the video period. The scan t...