US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,761, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Hiroshi Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junji Iwata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photoelectric conversion apparatus including semiconductor layer includes pixel array region and peripheral region. The semiconductor layer has first and second faces. Each pixel includes first semiconductor region of first conductivity type arranged on the first face side and second semiconductor region of second conductivity type arranged on the second face side...