US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,760, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Sang Chun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises a substrate that includes a front surface and a rear surface opposite to each other, a plurality of unit pixels disposed in the substrate, where each unit pixel includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer transistor that electrically connects the photoelectric conversion layer to the floating diffusion region, a pixel isolation pattern that penetrates the substrate in a first ...