ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,675, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and method of operating the same" was invented by Tuo Zhuang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device for reducing a processing load of signal processing using two images of different wavelengths, and a method of operating the imaging device. The phases of two incident light beams having different wavelengths are matched, the two incident light beams are polarized into the same polarization direction, a wavelength of one incident light beam of the two types of polarized incident light beams is matched with a wavelength of the other incide...