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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,282, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Image sensor" 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 may include a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite to each other, and micro lenses on the second surface, interconnection lines on the first surface, and a pixel isolation portion in the substrate, the pixel isolation portion configured to isolate pixels from direct contact ...