ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,287, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by KangMook Lim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Dae Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Sik Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ji-Youn Song (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hoon Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong Seok Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a plurality of unit pixels, each including: a substrate including first and second sides which are opposite to each other, a photoelectric conversion layer in the substrate, and a wiring structure on the first side of the su...