ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,087, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Hiroaki Iijima (Nara, Japan), Yuko Kishimoto (Osaka, Japan), Masaya Hirade (Osaka, Japan) and Shinji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes pixels. Each of the pixels includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer that is located between the first electrode and the second electrode, that contains a donor semiconductor material and an acceptor semiconductor material, and that generates a pair of an electron and a hole, a ...