US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on May 27 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,617, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Isao Hirota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and electronic equipment that enable improvement of image quality of a captured image. In the solid-state imaging device, two or more photoelectric conversion layers including a photoelectric converter and a charge detector are laminated. The solid-state imaging device is configured to include a state in which light having entered one pixel of a first p...