US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Photodetection device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,831, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetection device and electronic device" was invented by Yoshihisa Kagawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takatoshi Kameshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a photodetection device capable of suppressing an increase in a parasitic capacitance of an electrode pad. A photodetection device includes: a first semiconductor layer that includes a photoelectric conversion unit and has one surface being a light incident surface and another surface being an element formation surface; an insulating layer laminated on a side of t...