US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 1 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,268, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Jae-Kwan Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngchan Mo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sori Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinsu Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyemi Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a substrate including a pixel region and an optical black region, the optical black region including a dummy pixel region adjacent to the pixel region; a first color filter array on the pixel region; and a second color filter array on the dummy pixel region, wherein the subst...