US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 8 for "Image sensor wherein the transfer gate contacts a first refractive layer that is coplanar with a second refractive layer" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,709, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor wherein the transfer gate contacts a first refractive layer that is coplanar with a second refractive layer" was invented by Minho Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongsoon Kang (Gum-si, South Korea), Donghyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seungkuk Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Insung Joe (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a first structure, a second structure, and a third structure that are sequentially stacked in a vertical direction. The first structure includes a first substrate and ...