US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on May 19 for "Imaging device, method of manufacturing imaging device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,278, issued on May 19, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, method of manufacturing imaging device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Kodama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an imaging device that suppresses reflection of incident light still more effectively and has excellent sensitivity characteristics. This imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate and a photoelectric conversion section. The semiconductor substrate includes a multi-stepped recess in which a plurality of respective holes defined by first outlines having substantiall...