ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,308, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus including at least one light-blocking section" was invented by Yilun He (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate in which multiple sensor pixels are arranged in array, the semiconductor substrate having a first surface serving as a light incident surface and a second surface opposed thereto; a photoelectric conversion section provided on a side of the first surface inside the semiconductor substrate and generating electric charge correspon...