US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Image sensor including a ground region shared by pixels" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,417, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a ground region shared by pixels" was invented by Haeyong Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungsoo Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jongeun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate having first and second surfaces opposite each other, including first and second pixels adjacent to each other, a device isolation portion isolating the first and second pixels from each other in the substrate, a transfer gate on the first surface of the first and second pixels, ...