US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Photoelectric conversion device, image pickup system and method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,349, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, image pickup system and method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Mineo Shimotsusa (Machida, Japan), Takeshi Ichikawa (Hachioji, Japan) and Yasuhiro Sekine (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion unit for generating a signal charge in accordance with an incident light, and a second semiconductor substrate including a signal processing unit for processing an electrical signal on the basis of th...