US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Image sensor with pixel separation structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,397, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor with pixel separation structure" was invented by Masato Fujita (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doosik Seol (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taesub Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image sensor including a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces disposed opposite to the first surface, a pixel separation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate and defining and surrounding a pixel region, first and second photoelectric conversion regio...