US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on May 27 for "Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus including PN junction portions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,614, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus including PN junction portions" was invented by Takahiro Miura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device capable of improving the optical response speed. The semiconductor device includes a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of the plurality of pixels including: a pixel forming region partitioned by a separation region in a semiconductor layer; a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a se...