US Patent Issued to Sony Group on March 25 for "Imaging element, stacked imaging element, and solid-state imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,572, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element, stacked imaging element, and solid-state imaging device" was invented by Toshiki Moriwaki (Tokyo), Yuusuke Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element of the present disclosure includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A, and a second electrode 22 that are stacked, in which a protection layer 23B including an inorganic oxide, and an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23C are formed from side of the photoelectric conversion ...