ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,174, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Three-dimensionally structured imaging device" was invented by Daisuke Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyuki Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Haneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsuyoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaaki Minami (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes a first substrate including a sensor pixel that performs photoelectric conversion, a second substrate including a pixel circuit that outputs a pixel signal on a basis of electric charges outputted from the sensor pixel, and a third substra...