ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,242, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor having wide dynamic range based on pixels with plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, operating method of the same and electronic device" was invented by Jungwook Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image sensor. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, one of which includes: a driving transistor; a first switching transistor; a first photoelectric conversion element group with first photoelectric conversion elements; a second photoelectric conversion element group with at ...