ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,136, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and electronic apparatus including the image sensor" was invented by Sangeun Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunsung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungmo Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels sensing incident light, a nano-optical micro-lens array including a plurality of nano-optical micro-lenses respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels, and a color filter array disposed between the sensor substrate and the nano-optica...