US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 25 for "Light detecting device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,565, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light detecting device and electronic device" was invented by Hirofumi Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Chihiro Tomita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Harumi Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detecting device includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface located on opposite sides to each other in a thickness direction, and a photoelectric conversion cell provided in the semiconductor layer and partitioned by a first isolation region. The photoelectric conversion cell includes a first photoelectr...