US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 28 for "Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,561, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Norihiro Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ikumi Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress deterioration of imaging characteristics. A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion section provided inside a semiconductor substrate, the photoelectric conversion section being configured to generate electric charges in accordance with an amount of received light, a plurality of vertical transfer gates arranged between the photoelect...