US Patent Issued to NIKON on June 16 for "Image sensor and image capture device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,341, issued on June 16, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor and image capture device" was invented by Shigeru Matsumoto (Sagamihara, Japan) and Toru Takagi (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first circuit layer including a first semiconductor substrate with photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light and generates charge, and a first wiring layer with wiring that reads out signal based upon charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; second circuit layer including a second wiring layer with wiring connected to the wiring of the first wiring layer, and a second ...