ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,497, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Doowon Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Junghye Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Minho Jang (Busan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a first structure and a second structure stacked on the first structure in a vertical direction, the first structure including first and second pixel pads electrically connected to first and second floating diffusion regions, respectively, and a first coupling suppression line penetrating between the first ...