ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,643, issued on June 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Junji Hirase (Osaka, Japan), Masaaki Yanagida (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Takami (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric converter, a charge storage region, and an amplification transistor. The photoelectric converter includes a pixel electrode, a counter electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer. The photoelectric conversion layer is positioned above the semiconductor subst...