ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,325, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KINGRAY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Optical filter structure of arbitrary combination of UV, R, G, B, and IR, and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Cheng-Hsing Tsou (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Wei-Hao Cheng (Zhudong Township, Taiwan) and Pei-Yuan Ni (Zhudong Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical filter structure of an arbitrary combination of UV, R, G, B, and IR includes a substrate and a filter layer. The substrate is a wafer semiconductor sensor device and a product of light-transmitting device. The filter layer is formed on ...