US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,610, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Jiyoun Song (Seoul, South Korea), Ingyu Baek (Seoul, South Korea), Daehoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungsik Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image sensor including a semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces, transistors on the first surface, first and second lower pad electrodes apart from each other on a first interlayer insulating film covering the transistors, a mold insulating layer on the first and second lower pad electrodes, a first lower ...