US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 3 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,722, issued on June 3, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Takashi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an imaging device that allows miniaturization to be achieved in an in-plane direction without impairing operation performance. This imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each having a stacked structure of a photoelectric conversion unit formation region and an electric charge holding unit formation region. The photoelectric conversion unit formation region includes a photoelectric conversion unit and has ...