US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Image sensor including a transistor with a vertical channel and a method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,127, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a transistor with a vertical channel and a method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Wonseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunsub Shim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: photodiodes arranged in a substrate; active pillars connected to the photodiodes and extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to a bottom surface of the substrate; at least two transistors stacked in the vertical direction, wherein portions of the active pillars are channel areas of the a...