US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 23 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,747, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Reijiroh Shohji (Nagasaki, Japan), Masaki Haneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Horikoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Minoru Ishida (Tokyo), Takatoshi Kameshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Ikue Mitsuhashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideto Hashiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tadashi Iijima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a first substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, the first semiconductor subs...