US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 28 for "Imaging device and optical element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,392, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and optical element" was invented by Masashi Miyata (Musashino, Japan), Yoko Sogabe (Musashino, Japan), Fumihide Kobayashi (Musashino, Japan), Shiori Sugimoto (Musashino, Japan), Naru Nemoto (Musashino, Japan) and Toshikazu Hashimoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes an optical element including a transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on or in the transparent substrate in a plane direction of the transparent substrate, an imaging sensor in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric...