US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 22 for "Image sensor and method of fabricating same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,421, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of fabricating same" was invented by Jinyoung Kim (Ulsan, South Korea), Euiyeol Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyounmin Baek (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeong-Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Youngwoo Chung (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Heegeun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes; a substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface and including unit pixels respectively having photoelectric conversion regions, a semiconductor pattern disposed in a first trench de...