ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,846, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Minho Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seungkuk Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a stack structure including an active pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are defined, and a pad region arranged on at least one side of the active pixel region. The stack structure includes a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion region and a floating diffusion region in each pixel, a first semiconductor substrate, a first front structure on the first semiconduct...