ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,735, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Junichi Matsuo (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Otake (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an imaging device includes first junction electrodes on a junction surface of a first substrate with a second substrate and electrically coupled to respective floating diffusion layers; and second junction electrodes on a junction surface of the second substrate with the first substrate and joined to respective ones of the first junction electrodes. The first substrate and the second substrate are st...