US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 3 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,697, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Youjin Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minji Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jeongjin Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate the substrate including a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a direction parallel to a first direction; a first and second photodiode inside of the substrate in each of the plurality of unit pixels and separated from each other in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction; and a device isolation film between the ...