ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,195, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Yuta Nakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise is reduced. A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit that generates charge corresponding to an amount of received light, a transfer unit that transfers the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, a charge storage unit that stores the charge transferred by the transfer unit, an amplifying transistor that amplifies a signal corresponding to the charge stored in the charge storage unit, and...