ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,652, issued on May 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Takayoshi Yamada (Hyogo, Japan), Yoshihiro Sato (Osaka, Japan) and Taiji Noda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate and pixels, which includes a first pixel and second pixels adjacent thereto. Each of the pixels includes a first photoelectric conversion layer, a first pixel electrode, a first plug that electrically connects the semiconductor substrate and the first pixel electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer, a second pixel ...