ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,363, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion element" was invented by Takahiro Seike (Tsukuba, Japan) and Giovanni Ferrara (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve detectivity of a photoelectric conversion element (10). A photoelectric conversion element including a pair of electrodes (12, 16), an active layer (14) provided between the pair of electrodes, and an intermediate layer (13. 15) provided between the active layer and at least one of the pair of electrodes, in which the intermediate layer has a surface that is in contact with the active layer, the surf...