US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Aug. 25 for "Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method for manufacturing image pickup unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,883, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup unit, endoscope, and method for manufacturing image pickup unit" was invented by Takuro Suyama (Ina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup unit includes: a bonded device provided with a light receiving surface, an undersurface, and four side faces, the bonded device including a light receiving element provided with a light receiving circuit, and a circuit element provided with a peripheral circuit and direct-bonded to the light receiving element; a first protective layer covering the four side faces, the first protective layer being made of an...