ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,741, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Hyuk Soon Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sang-Su Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Sung Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Kun Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Min-Jun Choi (Hwaseong-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 substrate including a plurality of unit pixels, each of unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element; a first trench formed in the substrate in a lattice shape to isolate the plurality of unit pixels; a plurality of first ca...