US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 18 for "Light receiving element and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,220, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Shuji Manda (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Suguru Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigehiro Ikehara (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsuji Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first light receiving element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels, a photoelectric converter that is provided as a layer common to the plurality of pixels, and contains a compound semic...