US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,889, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yuki Miyanami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Okuyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device having a superior light-shielding property for a charge-holding section is provided. The imaging device includes: an Si {111} substrate extending along a horizontal plane; a photoelectric conversion section provided in the Si {111} substrate and generating charges corresponding to a light reception amount by photoelectric conversion; a ch...