US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Jan. 28 for "Image capturing element and image capturing apparatus having spectroscopic element array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,872, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing element and image capturing apparatus having spectroscopic element array" was invented by Masashi Miyata (Musashino, Japan), Mitsumasa Nakajima (Musashino, Japan) and Toshikazu Hashimoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing element according to the present disclosure includes a pixel array formed by a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on a substrate, each of the plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, a transparent layer formed on the pixel array, and a spectroscopic el...