ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,131, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Kazutoshi Kodama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device capable of reducing a useless region on a substrate is provided. An imaging device including a plurality of substrates to be stacked includes a readout-only circuit disposed on a substrate different from a substrate having a pixel array unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed thereon, and performing an operation of reading out electrical signals obtained through photoelectri...