ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,273, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensors" was invented by Jung Bin Yun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eun Sub Shim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyung Ho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung Ho Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hoon Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Wook Lim (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Min Ji Jung (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensors are provided. The image sensors may include a substrate including first, second, third and fourth regions, a first photoelectric conversion element in the first region, a second photoelectric conversi...