US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 12 for "Image sensor with a variable filter layer design" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,451, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor with a variable filter layer design" was invented by Minho Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungkuk Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Kwangmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Insung Joe (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a variable filter layer disposed on the substrate. The variable filter layer includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction, and having a first width in a second direction, a first elec...