US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 15 for "Photoelectric converter and imaging device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,031, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photoelectric converter and imaging device" was invented by Chigusa Yamane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first photoelectric converter according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a light absorbing layer having a light incidence surface and including a compound semiconductor material; a first electrode that is provided for each of pixels to be opposed to a surface of the light absorbing layer opposite to the light incidence surface; a first semiconductor layer of a first electrical conduction type; a se...