US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 24 for "Image sensor with shared extrinsic region" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,303, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor with shared extrinsic region" was invented by Daeuk Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngrae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sachoun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junghyung Pyo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate, a plurality of photodiodes in the substrate, a pixel separating pattern in the substrate separating the plurality of photodiodes, a first active pattern in the substrate at least partially overlapping a first photodiode and a ...