ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,818, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor" was invented by Donghoon Khang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kwangyoung Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chongkwang Chang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taehun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to each other; a plurality of photoelectric regions arranged in the semiconductor substrate in a first direction and a second direction, perpendicular to each other, in a first regi...