US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on March 18 for "Photoelectric conversion panel, x-ray panel, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,636, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Photoelectric conversion panel, x-ray panel, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Rikiya Takita (Kameyama, Japan), Fumiki Nakano (Kameyama, Japan), Makoto Nakazawa (Kameyama, Japan) and Hiroyuki Moriwaki (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion panel includes multiple thin-film transistors (TFTs) formed on an substrate, photodiodes respectively connected to the TFTs, and a metal layer formed on a light incident side of the photodiodes. The metal layer is formed in a position to overlap a subset of the photo...