ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,410, issued on July 29, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Imaging device with embedded conductive layers" was invented by Yusuke Negoro (Kaizuka, Japan) and Seiichi Yoneda (Isehara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a highly functional imaging device that can be manufactured through a small number of steps. A first stacked body is formed in which a circuit provided with a transistor including a metal oxide in its channel formation region (hereinafter, OS transistor) is stacked over a circuit including a Si transistor. A second stacked body is formed in which...