US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,853, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Hiroshi Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first semiconductor layer having a photoelectric conversion element, a second semiconductor layer including circuitry for processing a signal based on a charge obtained by the photoelectric conversion element, a first wiring structure electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, a second wiring structure electrically connected ...