ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,260, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Photodetector" was invented by Itaru Oshiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiki Ebiko (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first photodetector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate having a first surface that serves as a light-receiving surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, and including an uneven structure provided on the first surface and a light-receiving section that performs photoelectric conversion to generate electric charge corresponding to an amount of light recep...