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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,185, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensing device including protection device" was invented by Soon Yeol Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensing device comprising a plurality of unit photosensing pixels to convert light into electrical signals, each unit photosensing pixel including a photosensor and a plurality of transistors to perform operations associated with the photosensor and a plurality of protection devices, each of which is coupled to any one of the plurality of transistors, wherein each of the plurality of protection devices include...