US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Image sensors having shared pixels with deep trench isolations therebetween overlapped by contact barrier structures" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,283, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensors having shared pixels with deep trench isolations therebetween overlapped by contact barrier structures" was invented by Junghye Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gilwoo Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate and first and second shared pixels, which extend adjacent to each other in a first direction across the substrate. Each of the shared pixels includes: a plurality of floating diffusion regions at...