US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on May 6 for "Image-capture element and image capture device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,013, issued on May 6, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image-capture element and image capture device" was invented by Masashi Miyata (Tokyo), Mitsumasa Nakajima (Tokyo) and Toshikazu Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a highly-sensitive image-capture element and an image capture device that can be simply manufactured, have little polarization dependency, and have micro-spectroscopic elements capable of separating incident light into three wavelength ranges integrated facing a pixel array. An image capture element has a transparent layer having a low refractive index made of SiO2...