US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 15 for "Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,047, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Doowon Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Changrok Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyungtae Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image sensor including a first layer including a first semiconductor substrate including a pixel unit in which a plurality of unit pixels are provided, and a first wiring layer provided on the first semiconductor substrate, a second layer including a second semiconductor substrate on which a plurality of transistors ...