ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,306, issued on March 24, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Image sensors comprising an array of interference filters" was invented by Quentin Abadie (Grenoble, France), Francois Deneuville (Grenoble, France), Lilian Masarotto (Grenoble, France) and Jerome Vaillant (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including a substrate including first portions containing photodetectors adapted to capturing a radiation and second portions containing electronic components located between come of the first portions; a pixelated filter including filter pixels, at least...