ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,656, issued on May 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Akio Nakajun (Toyama, Japan), Hideyuki Odahara (Kyoto, Japan) and Manabu Tsunoda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a peripheral region that surrounds the pixel region; a resin layer including a first side surface having a first curved surface, and a second side surface located away from the pixel region further than the first side surface, the resin layer bein...