ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,102, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Daekwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jangho Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yohwan Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an image sensor includes a first pixel group and a second pixel group disposed in a substrate. The first pixel group includes a first plurality of first sub-groups configured to sense first light of a first color, and a plurality of second sub-groups configured to sense second light of a second color. The second pixel group i...