US Patent Issued to TOPPAN on March 3 for "Solid-state image sensor and imaging system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,698, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOPPAN Inc. (Taito-ku, Japan).

"Solid-state image sensor and imaging system" was invented by Hiroshige Goto (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor includes a first semiconductor, and a second semiconductor having a composition different from that of the first composition and electrically connected to the first semiconductor. The first semiconductor includes a photodiode that converts light incident on the photodiode into charge carriers, first carrier storages that store the charge carriers, and a transfer gate that controls transfer the charge carriers to a ...