ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,746, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment" was invented by Kenji Togo (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Ishino (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Hayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The distance between an upper end of a light-shielding portion and a photoelectric conversion layer is longer than the distance between the lower surface of a light-shielding film and the photoelectric conversion layer. The distance between a lower end of the light-shielding portion and the photoelectric conversion layer is shorter than the distance between the lower surface of the light-shielding fi...