ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,465, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yukihiro Sayama (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device and electronic apparatus incorporating an imaging device are provided. The imaging device includes a substrate and a plurality of photoelectric conversion units formed in the substrate. Each photoelectric conversion unit in the plurality of photoelectric conversion units is associated with at least one corresponding color filter in the plurality of color filters. The imaging device further includes a plura...