ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,226, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor comprising pixels usable in both rolling shutter and global shutter mode and image processing device including the same" was invented by Heesung Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaekyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungjae Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprising a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a row driver. Each of the pixel includes a photodiode, a transfer transistor for transfer...