US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 30 for "Image sensor including a light blocking film" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,051, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including a light blocking film" was invented by Kang Mook Lim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Seung Sik Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jae Hoon Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Je Yeoun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a substrate including a first area and a second area; a plurality of unit pixels disposed in the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion layer; a pixel defining pattern separating the unit pixels from each oth...