US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 30 for "Imaging device including microlens with plural alternating curves" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,013, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device including microlens with plural alternating curves" was invented by Akio Nakajun (Toyama, Japan) and Sogo Ota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter and a microlens. The microlens is provided above the photoelectric conversion layer. In a cross-section of the imaging device, an upper surface of the microlens forms a contour line in which a first curve projecting upward is connected to a second curve projecting downward at a first inflection point located...