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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,217, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Eunji Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungwook Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes, a first photodiode, a second photodiode, a first transfer transistor connected to a first floating diffusion node, a second transfer transistor connected to a second floating diffusion node, a first reset transistor configured to reset the first floating diffusion node with a first reset power supply voltage...