ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,832, issued on April 7, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Detection device" was invented by Ryuji Mori (Tokyo), Isao Suzumura (Tokyo), Masahiro Tada (Tokyo) and Takashi Doi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of photodiodes arranged on the substrate, a plurality of transistors provided correspondingly to each of the photodiodes, an insulating film that covers the transistors, and a plurality of lower electrodes each of which is provided above the insulating film correspondingly to each of the photodiodes, and is electrically coupled to the transistors. The lower elec...