ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,714, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Kenji Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshifumi Wakano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Otake (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a first chip. The first chip includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first anode region and a first cathode region, and the second pixel includes a second anode region and a second cathode region. The first chip includes a first wiring layer. The first wiring layer includes a first anode electrode, a first an...