US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on Aug. 12 for "Image sensing device with reduced power consumption by constraining the photocurrent" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,697, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device with reduced power consumption by constraining the photocurrent" was invented by Jae Hyung Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device may include: a substrate including a back side and a front side; imaging pixels configured to receive incident light from the back side and each structured to produce photocharge in response to the received incident light at each imaging pixel; a plurality of taps located at a depth from the front side of the substrate and configured to generate a current within...