ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,695, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Nobutoshi Fujii (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsunori Hiramatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiichi Nakazawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first substrate including, in a first semiconductor substrate, a sensor pixel that performs photoelectric conversion; a second substrate including, in a second semiconductor substrate, a readout circuit that outputs a pixel signal based on electric charges outputted from the sensor pixel,...