ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,803, issued on July 29, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor, image processing system, and operating method of the image processing system" was invented by Su Ram Cha (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image sensor including a pixel array having a pixel pattern in which first to fourth 2x2 pixel groups are arranged in a clockwise direction, one infrared pixel is arranged in each of two 2x2 pixel groups that are not adjacent to each other, the same green pixels are arranged in a first diagonal direction, and red pixels and blue pixels are arranged in half in a second...