US Patent Issued to Canon on July 8 for "Semiconductor apparatus and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,738, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor apparatus and device" was invented by Yoshiaki Takada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Ota (Tokyo) and Yoichiro Handa (Oita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion member included in a photodiode PD2 is disposed at the position overlapping with a section B1, a photoelectric conversion member included in a photodiode PD1 is disposed at the position overlapping with a section B2, and a photoelectric conversion member included in the photodiode PD1 is disposed at the position overlapping with a section B3. A plural...