US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Photoelectric conversion device, manufacturing method thereof, and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,392, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, manufacturing method thereof, and equipment" was invented by Daiki Shirahige (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunichi Wakashima (Tokyo) and Ginjiro Toyoguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit of a photoelectric conversion device includes two photoelectric conversion elements, each including two impurity region in each of two different layers. In at least one pixel of the pixel circuits, a first separation region separating the two impurity regions in a first layer and a second separation region separati...