ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,174, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Kook Tae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jingyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byeongtaek Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghwi Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a pixel separation part in the substrate, the pixel separation part separating a plurality of pixels from each other, the plurality of pixels including first to fourth pixe...