US Patent Issued to Canon on April 14 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,554, issued on April 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving object" was invented by Yusuke Onuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first chip having a first semiconductor element layer including a pixel region of a plurality of pixel circuits, and a second chip having a second semiconductor element layer. The first and second chips are bonded by a plurality of metal bonding portions between the first and second semiconductor element layers. The plurality of metal bonding portions includes fi...