ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,273, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Kyumin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwi Yoo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jueun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Soojin Hong (Guri-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel division structure, a light sensing element, a transistor, a color filter array layer, and a microlens. The pixel division structure extends through a substrate in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, and defines unit pixel regions in which unit pixels ar...