ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,732, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Member for solid-state image pickup device and method for manufacturing solid-state image pickup device" was invented by Nobuyuki Endo (Fujisawa, Japan), Tetsuya Itano (Sagamihara, Japan), Kazuo Yamazaki (Yokohama, Japan), Kyouhei Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Junji Iwata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary f...