US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 18 for "Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,164, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Pixel circuit and solid-state imaging device" was invented by Eshar Ben-Dor (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit includes a photoreceptor module. The photoreceptor module includes a photoelectric conversion element. The photoreceptor module outputs a photoreceptor signal with a voltage level depending on a detector current generated by the photoelectric conversion element. A voltage memory capacitor receives the detector signal at a first electrode. A latch comparator circuit receives a latch input signal bas...