US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 25 for "Image sensor and method of fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,328, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Yun Ki Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jonghoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Bumsuk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Junghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungeun Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoongi Joung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an image sensor includes forming a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, forming a pixel isolation trench in in the semiconductor substrate to define pixel regions, forming a lin...