US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 22 for "Solid-state imaging device and method for producing solid-state imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,471, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and method for producing solid-state imaging device" was invented by Nobukazu Teranishi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Atsushi Ono (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kazuma Hashimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takahito Yoshinaga (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each pixel 8 constituting a solid-state imaging device 1 includes a light scattering unit 27 receiving incident light L1 and generating absorbed light L2 including scattered light, and a photoelectric conversion unit 26 receiving the absorbed light L2 from a lig...