US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Dec. 9 for "Imaging device, electronic device, and moving object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,629, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Imaging device, electronic device, and moving object" was invented by Seiichi Yoneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Negoro (Osaka, Japan), Takayuki Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small-sized and highly functional imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion device formed on a silicon substrate and a transistor including a channel formation region in a silicon epitaxial growth layer formed on the silicon substrate. The tra...