US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 25 for "Image sensor including a pixel separation region having a reduced dark level" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,888, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a pixel separation region having a reduced dark level" was invented by Kooktae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate having a pixel separation recess, a plurality of photo-sensing elements arranged in the substrate, and a pixel separation region filling the pixel separation recess, wherein the pixel separation region includes a first insulating layer covering an inner wall of the pixel separation recess, a first conductive layer covering at least a portion of...