US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 30 for "Image sensor including a region separation pattern" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,376, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a region separation pattern" was invented by Takekazu Shinohara (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate. A pixel separation pattern defines a plurality of unit pixels inside the substrate. A first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit are arranged inside each of the plurality of unit pixels in a first direction. A plurality of microlenses is disposed on the substrate to correspond to each of the plurality of unit pixels. A region ...