US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 14 for "Image pixels having IR sensors with reduced exposure to visible light" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,551, issued on April 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Image pixels having IR sensors with reduced exposure to visible light" was invented by Swarnal Borthakur (Boise, Idaho) and Andrew Eugene Perkins (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image pixels having IR sensors with reduced exposure to visible light. One example is an image sensor comprising: a photosensitive region; a lower optical filter above the photosensitive region, and the lower optical filter configured to filter visible light and to pass infrared light; and an upper optical filter above the lower optical filter,...