US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on May 27 for "Imaging apparatus, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,623, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic equipment" was invented by Nao Yoshimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Miyanami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigehiro Ikehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to curb noise, color mixing, and the like. An imaging apparatus includes: a semiconductor; a photoelectric conversion unit that is provided on the semiconductor substrate and generates electrical charge in accordance with the amount of received light through photoelectric conversion; an electrical charge ...