ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,391, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Yoongi Joung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junsik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yunki Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including a substrate including a first and second surface; a pixel isolation structure penetrating the substrate, arranged in a pixel isolation trench extending from the first to second surface of the substr...