US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 8 for "Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,704, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kyeongjae Byeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Kim (Ulsan, South Korea), Seungjoo Nah (Gwangju, South Korea) and Heegeun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region, a light sensing element in the substrate, a planarization layer on the light sensing element, a color filter array layer including color filters on the planarization layer on th...