US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 29 for "Unit pixel and image sensor including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,551, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Unit pixel and image sensor including the same" was invented by Jung Wook Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unit pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate first charges in response to a first incident light, a first transfer transistor connected between the first photoelectric conversion unit and a first node, a connecting transistor connected between a second node and the first node, a second photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate second charges in response to a s...