US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions, RIKEN on July 28 for "Light-receiving device, X-ray imaging device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,570, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and RIKEN (Saitama, Japan).

"Light-receiving device, X-ray imaging device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Ishiwata (Kanagawa, Japan), Chihiro Arai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hikaru Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaki Hatsui (Saitama, Japan), Takahiro Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunobu Ota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-receiving device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a light-receiving region with light-receiving elements arranged two-dimensionally in matrix, and a peripheral region provided t...