ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,631, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor including simplified structure for horizontal insulating layer" was invented by Jaesang Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dohoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seokjong Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Sungkyoo Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Sangil Jung (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including a plurality of photodiodes, a color filter array having a plurality of color filters, and a horizontal insulating layer disposed between the substrate and the color filter array, ...