US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 17 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,642, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic device" was invented by Tomohiko Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kiyoshige Tsuji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor (102) includes a photoelectric conversion unit (10) that generates a photoelectric charge, a sense node (SN) (21) that is connected to the photoelectric conversion unit (10) and holds the photoelectric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit (10), a discharge transistor (15) for discharging the photoelectric charge held by the sense node (SN) (2...