ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,007, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Solid-state image sensor including light-splitting structure" was invented by Chun-Yuan Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ching-Hua Li (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Zong-Ru Tu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Chang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Han-Lin Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jen Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes photoelectric conversion elements and a color filter layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements. The color filter layer has a first color filter s...