ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,397, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Kouichi Inoue (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the sensitivity of the imaging element. An imaging element includes pixels and a light guide wall. The pixels each include: a photoelectric conversion unit arranged in a semiconductor substrate to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light, an on-chip lens that concentrates the incident light on the photoelectric conversion unit, a color filter that transmits incident light having a predetermined wavelength wi...