US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and mobile body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,286, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and mobile body" was invented by Junji Iwata (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Maehashi (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first substrate having a plurality of avalanche diodes, a second substrate having a plurality of pixel circuits, and a third substrate having a signal processing circuit. The second substrate and the third substrate are stacked in such a manner that a third wiring structure is provided between two semiconductor lay...