US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,838, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric converter having a predetermined dimension in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; a first charge accumulator that is provided in the semiconductor substrate and accumulates a signal charge generated by the photoelectric converter; and a transfer gate including a first electrode section and a second electrode section...