ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,473, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including nano-photonic microlens array and electronic apparatus including the image sensor" was invented by Sangeun Mun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sookyoung Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a plurality of pixels for sensing incident light, and a nano-photonic microlens array including a plurality of nano-photonic microlenses corresponding respectively to the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of ...