ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,811, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiko Muraoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solid-state imaging element and an electronic apparatus capable of generating difference information between pixels at high speed while suppressing an increase in circuit scale. The solid-state imaging element includes a first analog-to-digital conversion unit including first and second analog-to-digital conversion circuits, and a second analog-to-digital conversion unit including a third anal...