US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Oct. 14 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,343, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Michiko Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit which further includes a plurality of unit pixels in a two-dimensional array. The plurality of unit pixels are configured to include a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a plurality of microlenses, where the plurality of photoelectric conversion units generates signal charges corresponding to the amount of incident light, one microlens is for one...