US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,340, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Haewook Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minchul Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Masamichi Ito (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes: a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite to each other; a photoelectric conversion region in the semiconductor substrate; a vertical transfer gate, which extends into the semiconductor substrate from the first surface toward...