ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,645, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Image sensors" was invented by Jonghyun Go (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae-Kyu Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor for securing an area of a photodiode includes a pixel area and a transistor area adjacent to the pixel area. The pixel area may include a photodiode and a floating diffusion area. The transistor area may include transistors extending along an edge of the pixel area. The transistors in the transistor area may include a reset transistor, one or more source follower transistors, and o...