ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,261, issued on June 3, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device" was invented by Hyung June Yoon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jong Eun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jong Chae Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jae Won Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyung Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hoon Moo Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device is provided to include a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape. Each of the pixels includes: a control node configured to generate a hole current in a substrate; a detection node configured to captu...