ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,626, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and camera" was invented by Nobutaka Ukigaya (Yokohama, Japan) and Hideshi Kuwabara (Yamato, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes an element isolating portion that is disposed on a side of a front surface of a semiconductor layer and constituted by an insulator, and a pixel isolating portion. The pixel isolating portion includes a part that overlaps an isolating region in a normal direction. The semiconductor layer is continuous across semiconductor regions in an intermediate plane. The part is ...