US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Image sensor including vertical gate electrode at center of pixel region and charge pocket region under vertical gate electrode" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,557, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including vertical gate electrode at center of pixel region and charge pocket region under vertical gate electrode" was invented by Younggu Jin (Osan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel region; a vertical gate electrode disposed in the semiconductor substrate at a center of the pixel region; a charge pocket region provided under the vertical gate electrode in the semiconductor substrate, and doped with a first impurity having a first conductivity ty...