ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,603, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Composition, film, optical filter, solid-state imaging element, image display device, infrared sensor, camera module, compound, and infrared absorber" was invented by Suguru Samejima (Shizuoka, Japan), Tokihiko Matsumura (Shizuoka, Japan), Yumi Kato (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryoji Orita (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composition which has excellent temporal stability and excellent spectral characteristics, and with which a film with suppressed defects can be formed. The composition includes a coloring agent represented by Formula (1) and a cur...