US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 1 for "Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,487, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kentaro Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state image pickup device that includes a first substrate that is a substrate other than a {100} substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit that is provided in the first substrate, a lens that is provided above the first substrate, one or more substrates that are provided below the first substrate and have a crystal plane different from a crystal plane of the first substrate, and a trans...