ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,811, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Yosuke Satake (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Arai (Kanagawa, Japan), Naohiro Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichiro Zaitsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mizuki Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of imaging elements that are arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction on the semiconductor substrate and perform pho...