US Patent Issued to NTT on July 28 for "Optical element, image sensor and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,567, issued on July 28, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Japan).

"Optical element, image sensor and imaging device" was invented by Masashi Miyata (Musashino, Japan), Naru Nemoto (Musashino, Japan), Mitsumasa Nakajima (Musashino, Japan) and Toshikazu Hashimoto (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element includes a transparent layer which covers a pixel including a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element, and a plurality of structures disposed on the transparent layer or in the transparent layer in a plane direction of the transparent layer, wherein the transparent layer in...