ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,880, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Kook Tae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ju-Eun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Miseon Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jaewoong Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Soojin Hong (Guri-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including a substrate having first and second surfaces that are opposite to each other. The substrate includes unit pixel regions having photoelectric conversion regions. A semiconductor pattern is disposed in a first trench defined in the substrate and defines the unit ...