US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 2 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,536, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Kook Tae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Miseon Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jaesung Hur (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first pixel isolation structure disposed in a first trench which vertically extends from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and defines a plurality of pixel regions, and a second pixel isolation structure disposed in a second...