US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 7 for "Imaging apparatus and electronic apparatus having a transfer transistor gate electrode extending into a pixel separation section from a first surface to a second surface of a semiconductor substrate" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,082, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and electronic apparatus having a transfer transistor gate electrode extending into a pixel separation section from a first surface to a second surface of a semiconductor substrate" was invented by Hirofumi Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion section that is located in a pixel region divided by the pixel separation section and generates a charge according to incident light, a floating diffusion that holds the c...