ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,568, issued on Aug. 18, 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), Sungmo Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sookyoung Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Choonlae Cho (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 that detect light, and a nano-optical microlens array arranged on the sensor substrate and including a plurality of nano-optical microlenses that focus incident light on t...