ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,424, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device" was invented by Soon Yeol Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hye Won Mun (Icheon-si, South Korea), Kyung Do Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Young Hwan Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyuk An (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device includes a unit pixel configured to have a shape with first, second, third and fourth vertices where the second vertex and the third vertex are positioned in a diagonal direction of the unit pixel, a floating diffusion region disposed adjacent to the first vertex of the u...