US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 3 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,721, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Myeongeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eun Sub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment provides an image sensor including: a pixel array including a first floating diffusion and a second floating diffusion, the first floating diffusion and the second floating diffusion configured to store charges generated by a first phase detecting pixel and a second phase detecting pixel adjacent to each other in a first direction and covered with one micro lens, and the pixel arra...