ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,373, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Light detection element" was invented by Sintaro Nakajiki (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection element includes a substrate on which a plurality of light reception units is arranged in pixel units, and a filter formed over a plurality of adjacent pixels on the substrate, the filter that cuts visible light and transmits infrared light."
The patent was filed on Feb. 4, 2022, under Application No. 18/548,652.
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