ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,285, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Image sensor and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Ju Hee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Mo Im (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ji Hee Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae-Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ji Hun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate, a photoelectric conversion region in the substrate with the substrate defining a substrate trench on the photoelectric conversion region, a floating diffusion region adjacent to a side surface of the substrate trench, in the sub...