US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 31 for "Image sensor including pixels having a plurality of capacitors" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,520, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor including pixels having a plurality of capacitors" was invented by Juyeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunsub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, wherein each of the pixels includes a photodiode, a transfer transistor, first to third floating diffusion nodes, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a first switch transistor, a second switch transistor, and ...