US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Image sensor in which pixels have substantially uniform heights and a method of fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,418, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor in which pixels have substantially uniform heights and a method of fabricating the same" was invented by Dongchan Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hwiyoung Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a substrate including an active region and a peripheral region, unit pixels disposed on the active region, device isolation patterns defining the unit pixels disposed on the active region, a light-shield layer on the substrate and having a grid structure defining optical transmission regi...