US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 2 for "Image sensors and methods of fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,252, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensors and methods of fabricating the same" was invented by Min-Jun Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Wonoh Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Gyuhyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Myungjo Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are image sensors and methods of fabricating the same. The image sensor comprises a substrate including a plurality of pixels, a photoelectric conversion region in the substrate at each of the pixels, a gate electrode on the substrate at each of the pixels, an interlayer dielectric layer...