ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,330, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Takejiro Ichiki (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a photoelectric conversion section and an electric charge accumulation section for each of pixels. The electric charge accumulation section accumulates signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion section. The second semiconductor layer includes a pixel transistor that r...