ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,660, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Hirofumi Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second substrate including a pixel circuit that outputs a pixel signal on a basis of electric charges outputted from the sensor pixel and a third substrate including a processing circuit that performs signal processing on the pixel signal are provided. The first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate are stacked in this order. A semiconductor layer including the pixel circuit is divided by an insulating layer. The insulatin...