US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,474, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment" was invented by Naoki Inatani (Tokyo) and Shunya Kamioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a substrate, a planarizing layer, and first and second intra-layer lenses. The substrate includes first and second surfaces and is provided with pixels, each including a photoelectric converter between the first and second surfaces. The first intra-layer lens is located at a position overlapping with at least part of the photoelectric converter in plan view with respect to t...