ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,129, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus including two floating diffusion regions" was invented by Hirokazu Ejiri (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a mode-switching switch section that, in a first mode, electrically couples a first signal path to a photoelectric conversion section and electrically decouples a second signal path from the photoelectric conversion section, and that, in a second mode, electrically couples both o...