ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,634, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Masashi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Yamajo (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Yamamoto (Tokyo), Yuichiro Baba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichi Kanai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Color accuracy in an imaging device is improved.An imaging element includes a plurality of pixels that acquires first information that is information of three primary colors and second information that is information of at least two colors different from the three primary colors and that includes...