US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on April 29 for "Image sensing device including light shielding pattern" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,545, issued on April 29, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device including light shielding pattern" was invented by Kilbock Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensing devices are disclosed. In some implementations, an image sensing device includes a substrate, and a pixel array including one or more phase difference detection pixel groups supported by the substrate and structured to respond to incident light, each phase difference detection pixel group including two or more phase difference detection pixels structured to detect a phase difference of the incident light...