US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "Photoelectric conversion device and photoelectric conversion system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,275, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Daiki Shirahige (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a first substrate including, in a first semiconductor layer, a photoelectric conversion unit and a transfer transistor configured to transfer charges generated in the photoelectric conversion unit, a second substrate including, in a second semiconductor layer, a pixel circuit configured to output a signal based on the charges transferred from the transfer transistor, and a third substrat...