US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 25 for "Imaging element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,902, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Daiki Ogura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a first substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion portion that photoelectrically converts light and generates charge, and a readout circuit that outputs a signal based on the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion portion, a second substrate laminated on the first substrate and provided with a processing portion that processes the signal output from the readout circuit, and a connection portion provided with a bent portion ben...