ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,845, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging element of an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion section for each pixel; a pixel transistor provided on one surface of the semiconductor substrate; and an element separation section provided in the semiconductor substrate and including a first element separation section and a second element separation section that ...