ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,328, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic device having planar or cascaded photosensitive materials" was invented by Hong Wei Lee (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a set of epitaxial layers formed on the semiconductor substrate, pixel circuitry included within the set of epitaxial layers, a set of dielectric walls formed on the set of epitaxial layers, and a set of photosensitive materials disposed in one or more cavities formed by the set of dielectric walls and electrically connected to the pixel circuitry."
The patent was fi...