US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 4 for "Imaging element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,947, issued on March 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Takeyoshi Komoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variation in electrostatic capacitances of control signal lines in a pixel is reduced. An imaging element includes: photoelectric conversion units arranged in a first semiconductor substrate; a charge holding unit that is disposed in the first semiconductor substrate and holds generated charges; a plurality of charge transfer units that is each disposed for one of the photoelectric convers...