ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,840, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Hyunseok Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Boseong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in a first direction, and a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a third direction perpendicular to the second direction. The pixel array includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel. Each of the f...