US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 29 for "Imaging device and driving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,552, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device and driving method" was invented by Takamichi Yokoyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Iijima (Nara, Japan) and Morio Mitsuishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels and a voltage supply circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a pixel electrode; a counter electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer located between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode; and a charge blocking layer located between the pixel electrode and the photoelectric con...