ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,836, issued on April 22, was assigned to VisEra Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor wherein focus of lens of an optical component misaligned a center of a photodiode" was invented by Wei-Ko Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a photodiode array having a plurality of photodiodes, a grid disposed over the photodiode array, and a plurality of optical components disposed over the grid and corresponding to the plurality of apertures, respectively. The grid defines a plurality of apertures corresponding to the plurality of photodiodes, respectively. The optical components includ...