US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on April 29 for "Optical element, infrared sensor, solid-state imaging element, and manufacturing method for optical element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,942, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical element, infrared sensor, solid-state imaging element, and manufacturing method for optical element" was invented by Takahiro Oya (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a photoelectric conversion film and an inorganic substance-containing film containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal nitride and a metal oxynitride, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a quantum dot or at least one compound semiconductor selected from the group consisting of a III-V group compound semiconductor, a II...