ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,479, issued on May 20, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup module and endoscope" was invented by Takatoshi Igarashi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup module includes an image pickup device having a light receiving circuit, a prism arranged on the light receiving circuit and configured to bend incident light to guide the incident light to the light receiving circuit, a stacked device that includes a plurality of semiconductor devices each having a through wiring and bonded to each other by solder, and is arranged around the light receiving circuit of the image pickup device, a resin layer s...