US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 14 for "Image sensing device and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,268, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensing device and method of operating the same" was invented by Eun Chang Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Min Kyu Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Han Sang Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Da Hwan Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sang Young Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device capable of detecting a distance to a target object according to a time-of-flight (TOF) method is disclosed. The image sensing device includes a pixel configured to generate a pulse signal based on photons reflected from a ta...