US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Image sensor including polarization patterns" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,566, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including polarization patterns" was invented by Sanghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonguk Kim (Suwon-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 plurality of first pixel regions configured to generate image information and a plurality of second pixel regions configured to detect phase information, a grid pattern on the substrate and dividing a plurality of spaces corresponding to each of the plurality of first pixel regions and the pl...