US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,446, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, and equipment" was invented by Hiroshi Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Junji Iwata (Tokyo), Aymantarek Abdelghafar (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a connecting portion that electrically connects a contact plug of anode wiring and the second semiconductor region of the isolation portion. The connecting portion includes a third semiconductor region of the second conducting type that is connected to the ...