US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 2 for "Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,451, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device, solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Taku Umebayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Tatani (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryuichi Kanamura (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof, the first semiconductor section further including a photodiode, a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being sec...