US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on March 18 for "Imaging apparatus and imaging method to surpresss dark current and improve quantum efficiency" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,166, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and imaging method to surpresss dark current and improve quantum efficiency" was invented by Shin Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a photoelectric converter that generates a charge according to a received light amount, and a charge transfer region that is disposed at a place inside a substrate not exposed to a substrate surface and in contact with the photoelectric converter, and to which the charge generated by the photoelectric converter is transferre...