US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,287, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Junghyung Pyo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a substrate including a first side configured to receive light and a second side that is opposite the first side; a pixel separating pattern configured to at least partially define a unit pixel in the substrate; a first photoelectric conversion layer and a second photoelectric conversion layer arranged in a first direction in the pixel separating pattern; a first separating ...