ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,305, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic device" was invented by Ryoji Eki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that enable construction of an imaging device that outputs information required by a user with a small size. A single-chip imaging device includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels is arranged two-dimensionally and that captures an image; a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using a captured image output from the imaging u...