ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,257, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic device" was invented by Yusuke Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a multilayer imaging device capable of both securing a wide sensitive region and securing an accumulated amount of charges. An imaging device according to an embodiment comprises a pixel, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion layer (15); a first electrode (11) positioned close to a first surface of the photoelectric conversion layer and electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion layer; a second ele...