US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Feb. 10 for "Solid-state imaging element and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,466, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element and electronic device" was invented by Shintarou Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiko Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging element that includes a pixel array section, an isolation region, and a light shielding section. In the pixel array section, a plurality of light receiving pixels each including a photoelectric conversion layer made of an organic material and a charge storage layer that stores a charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer is di...