US Patent Issued to Sharp Semiconductor Innovation on June 23 for "Biological information acquisition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,011, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sharp Semiconductor Innovation Corp. (Tenri City, Japan).

"Biological information acquisition device" was invented by Keiichi Shibata (Tenri City, Japan), Daisuke Funao (Tenri City, Japan), Kunihiko Kitaoku (Tenri City, Japan), Sota Hida (Tenri City, Japan) and Yuta Mochizuki (Tenri City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological information acquisition device includes a near-infrared light source, a solid-state image sensor, and an information processing device, wherein the solid-state image sensor includes at least one specific pixel having a sensitivity peak in a specific wavelength ...