US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 14 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,598, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Tomoki Hiramatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Togashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuhiro Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The quantum efficiency can be improved. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, in which each of the pixels includes a first semiconductor layer, a photoelectric conversion section disposed on the first semiconductor layer on a side of a first surface, an accumulation...