US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Dual vertical gate and image sensor including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,655, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Dual vertical gate and image sensor including the same" was invented by Dongmin Han (Daegu, South Korea), Wonhyeok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seongjoo Nah (Gwangju, South Korea) and Heegeun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a dual vertical gate. The dual vertical gate includes two vertical extension portions that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction and vertically extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction into a substrate, and a connection portio...