ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,418, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Jong Hoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yun Ki Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bum Suk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bo Mi Kim (Yeongju-si, South Korea), Tae Sung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Yoon Gi Joung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor, including a substrate having a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first focus pixel; a first merged pixel; a second merged pixel; a first color filter; a second color filter; a third color filter; a g...