US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Imaging sensor with near-infrared absorber" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,461, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Imaging sensor with near-infrared absorber" was invented by Minseok Oh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Satyadev Hulikal Nagaraja (San Jose, Calif.) and Cyrus Soli Bamji (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example imaging sensor comprises a bulk silicon substrate and a pixel array. The pixel array comprises an active pixel region including an active pixel subarray, an optical black pixel region including an optical black pixel subarray, and an optical black dummy pixel region including an optical black dummy pixel subarray, the optical ...