ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,662, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and system" was invented by Nobuyuki Endo (Fujisawa, Japan), Tetsuya Itano (Sagamihara, Japan), Kazuo Yamazaki (Yokohama, Japan), Kyouhei Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Takeshi Ichikawa (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus according to the present invention in which a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion element and a gate electrode of a transistor, and a second substrate including a peripheral circuit portion are placed upon each other. The first substrate does not include a high-melting-metal compou...