US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 11 for "Imaging device and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,796, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yoshito Nagashima (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes a pixel, a pixel circuit, a light-shielding wall, a through electrode, and a protrusion. The pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit. The first photoelectric conversion unit is adjacent to the semiconductor substrate and performs photoelectric conversion of incident light. The second photoelectric conversion unit is in the s...