US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on March 25 for "Image sensing device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,182, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device" was invented by Eun Khwang Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device includes an image pixel region including active pixels, each active pixel configured to generate an imaging pixel signal through a photoelectric conversion of incident light received by the active pixel, and an optical black pixel region disposed separately from the image pixel region and including a plurality of black pixels and a light blocking layer that blocks incident light from entering the black pixels, each black p...