US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on July 29 for "Image sensing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,397, issued on July 29, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device" was invented by Ken Sawada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device includes a first substrate layer including a photoelectric conversion region for converting incident light into photocharges and a floating diffusion region for storing the photocharges therein, a first interconnect layer disposed over the first substrate layer and including a switch transistor gate overlapping at least a portion of the floating diffusion region, a second substrate layer disposed over the first interconnect layer, a second inter...