ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,315, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Stacked image sensors" was invented by Dongseok Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongeun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongsoon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyunha Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gwideok Ryan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stacked image sensor includes a first semiconductor substrate and including a photoelectric conversion region and a floating diffusion area, a first insulating layer under the first semiconductor substrate and including a gate of a transfer transistor, a second semiconductor substrate ...