US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Image sensor including shared pixels" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,961, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor including shared pixels" was invented by Eunsub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include a first shared pixel region and a first isolation layer on a substrate, the first isolation layer defining the first shared pixel region. The first shared pixel region may include photo-sensing devices in sub-pixel regions and a first floating diffusion region connected to the photo-sensing devices. The sub-pixel regions may include a first sub-pixel region and a second sub-pixel region that ...