ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,634, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device and equipment" was invented by Kazuo Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a first substrate and a second substrate laminated one on another. The first substrate has a pixel region having a photoelectric conversion element for acquiring a pixel signal, the second substrate has a processing circuit for processing the pixel signal, a first wire, which includes a plurality of wire layers and which is a common wire to be connected in common with a plurality of...