ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,352, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state imaging element having partition wall disposed between optical filters" was invented by Masahiro Mori (Haibara-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging element including a support 1 having a photoelectric conversion unit 10 and an optical filter 20 provided on a light incident side with respect to the photoelectric conversion unit 10. The optical filter 20 has two or more kinds of pixels 21, 22, and 23 arranged in a patterned manner and a partition wall 25 disposed between the pixels. A refractive index of the partition wal...