US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Jan. 20 for "Multilayer film and imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,834, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multilayer film and imaging element" was invented by Koji Sekiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Murata (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomiyuki Yukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Joei (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideaki Togashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer film according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: semiconductor layers; and dielectric layers. In each of the semiconductor layers, a value of an optical constant k1 for light having a wavelength in a visible light region among optical constants k is larger t...