US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 24 for "Solid-state imaging element and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,640, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and imaging apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiko Nakadate (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshifumi Wakano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiko Nakamizo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging element of a pixel sharing type with improved driving of transistors is disclosed. A first electric charge accumulating section and a second electric charge accumulating section are arranged in a predetermined direction. A first transfer section transfers electric charge from first photoelectric conversion element...