US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Nov. 11 for "Imaging apparatus, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,402, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion unit in the semiconductor substrate and generates charge corresponding to the amount of received light by photoelectric conversion, a charge holding unit on a side closer to a first surface of the semiconductor substrate than to the photoelectric conversion unit, and holds the charge transferred from the pho...