ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,533, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOPPAN PRINTING Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state image sensor filter and solid-state image sensor" was invented by Reiko Iwata (Taito-ku, Japan), Yuri Hirai (Taito-ku, Japan), Kazushige Kitazawa (Taito-ku, Japan) and Tadatoshi Maeda (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor filter includes: a light-incident surface on which light is incident; an infrared filter located on a side of a photoelectric conversion element on which the light-incident surface is disposed; and a barrier layer located on a side of the infrared filter on which the light-incident surface is dis...