ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,215, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Kazuki Sakoda (Kumamoto, Japan), Yusuke Uesaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Susumu Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element is provided with a plurality of pixels, a separation region, and a non-separation region. Each of the plurality of pixels is provided with a polarization unit that polarizes incident light in a specific polarization direction and a photoelectric conversion unit that is formed in a semiconductor substrate and performs photoelectric conversion...