US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 30 for "Image sensor including auto-focus pixels" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,375, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including auto-focus pixels" was invented by Taesung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongmin Keum (Daegu, South Korea), Bumsuk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jinho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junsung Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kwanghee Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongkyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yunki Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a normal pixel, a first auto-focus (AF) pixel, and a second AF pixel, each of the normal pixel, the first AF pixel and the secon...