ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,368, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a plurality of pixels and at least one lens" was invented by Hyungeun Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongmin Keum (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung-Saeng Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bumsuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yun Ki Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is provided. The image sensor image sensor includes: a first pixel group including a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel and a fourth pixel; a second pixel group including a fifth pixel, a sixth pixel, a seventh pixel a...