ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,768, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan) and SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and imaging machine" was invented by Yosuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yushiro Nakagome (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masato Kanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device including a first electrode, a second electrode.a photoelectric conversion layer, a first electric charge block layer, and a second electric charge block layer is provided. The second electrode faces the first electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer is between the first electrode and t...