US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on May 13 for "Imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,651, issued on May 13, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic device" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo), Takayuki Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuya Kakehata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Tokumaru (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device suitable for detecting infrared light is provided. The imaging device includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer, which are stacked in this order. The first layer includes an infrared-light-transmitting filter. The second layer includes single cryst...