ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,197, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor, electronic device including image sensor and operating method thereof" was invented by Inah Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Shuichi Shimokawa (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kawang Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byeongjoo Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeotak Youn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jonghoon Won (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a camera module. An image sensor of the camera module may include a first pix...