US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Image sensor and electronic system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,829, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and electronic system including the same" was invented by Munhwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a color unit pixel comprising sub-pixels arranged in an mxn matrix on a substrate, and a pixel isolation structure isolating the sub-pixels from each other in the color unit pixel. The pixel isolation structure includes an outer isolation film surrounding the color unit pixel, at least one inner isolation film including a portion between two ...