US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 11 for "Image sensor and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,311, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of operating the same" was invented by Munhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Youngsun Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jongyoon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Honghyun Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hana Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor and a method of operating the same are provided. The image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a photoelectric conversion region provided in the semiconductor substrate and doped to have a second conductivity ...