ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,472, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VisEra Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
"Image sensor having meta-surface layer with meta-structures" was invented by Cheng-Hsuan Lin (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Chun-Yuan Wang (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Po-Hsiang Wang (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes an array of pixels, each of the pixels includes a sensor layer and a color filter layer disposed on the sensor layer. Each of the pixels further includes a first meta-surface layer disposed over the color filter layer and a second meta-surface layer disposed on the first meta-surface laye...