ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,101, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Hidenari Kanehara (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Sato (Osaka, Japan), Takayoshi Yamada (Hyogo, Japan) and Akio Nakajun (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a counter electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer that converts light into a signal charge, a plurality of sets of electrodes each of which collects the signal charge, each of the plurality of sets including a first electrode included in a high-sensitivity pixel and a second electrode included in a low-sensi...