US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,718, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Eunsub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including: a plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements included in a first region of a pixel; a plurality of second photoelectric conversion elements included in a second region of the pixel; a first overflow capacitor connected to the plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements to store overflow charges of the first photoelectric conversion elements; a second overflow capacitor connected to the plurality of se...