ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,630, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Chihiro Arai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoyoshi Fujinohara (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an imaging apparatus that is advantageous for reducing the influence of stray light on a captured image. The imaging apparatus includes: a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of effective pixels that performs photoelectric conversion; an effective covering part including an optical element and covering the plurality of effective pixels in the semiconductor substrate; and a peripheral c...