ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,531, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Morikazu Tsuno (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter that converts incident light to charge, a semiconductor substrate that includes an element isolation region and a first impurity region of a first conductivity type, the first impurity region being electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, a plug that includes a first semiconductor, the plug being connected directly to the first impurity region, a pad that includes a second...