ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,172, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic device" was invented by Tatsuya Okawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Color mixing between pixels of different colors is suppressed. A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor layer including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections partitioned by an isolation region; a shared on-chip lens arranged on a light incident surface side of the semiconductor layer, the shared on-chip lens being shared by the photoelectric conversion sections adjacent to each other with...