ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,199, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Shota Yamada (Shiga, Japan) and Yutaka Hirose (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: one or more pixels, each of the one or more pixels including a photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer that converts incident light into a signal charge, and a blocking layer; and a charge accumulation region that is coupled to the second electrode, and that accumulates the signal charge. An energy barrier of the ...