ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,797, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Junghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bumsuk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jonghoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungeun Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yun Ki Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including pixel regions and having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a first trench recessed from the first surface, a shallow device isolation pattern provided in the first trench, and a deep device isolation pattern between...