ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,282, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Minkwan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chang Kyu Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), In Sung Joe (Seoul, South Korea), Junhong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinsun Pyo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate, a pixel isolation pattern in the substrate and defining unit pixel regions in the substrate, color filters on the substrate and corresponding to the unit pixel regions, respectively, a low-refractive index pattern between adjacent color filters of the co...