ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,751, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Masato Fujita (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doosik Seol (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungduck Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taesub Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel array and a logic circuit. The pixel array includes a pixel isolation layer between a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels include a pixel circuit below at least one photodiode. The logic circuit acquires a pixel signal from the plurality of ...