US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on May 20 for "Solid-state imaging device and imaging device with shared circuit elements" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,136, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and imaging device with shared circuit elements" was invented by Frederick Brady (Webster, N.Y.), Pooria Mostafalu (New York) and Hongyi Mi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a plurality of unit pixels disposed into pixel groups that are separated from one another by isolation structures. Unit pixels within each pixel group are separated from one another by isolation structures and share circuit elements. The isolation structures between pixel groups are full thickness isolation str...