US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Image sensor with a device isolation structure enclosing a plurality of pixels including an opening in plan view" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,615, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor with a device isolation structure enclosing a plurality of pixels including an opening in plan view" was invented by Younggu Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngchan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yonghun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of unit pixels, a photoelectric device portion and a storage device portion disposed in the substrate and constituting the plurality of unit pixels, a device isolation structure disposed in the substr...