US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on March 24 for "Polarimetric image sensor" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,795, issued on March 24, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Polarimetric image sensor" was invented by Francois Deneuville (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polarimetric image sensor formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate, the sensor including: -a plurality of pixels, each comprising a photodetector formed in the semiconductor substrate; -a polarizing filter arranged on the side of an illumination surface of the photodetectors, the filter including, for each pixel, a polarizing structure; and-a polarization router comprising a two-dimensional metas...