US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 14 for "Sensor having an active surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,790, issued on July 14, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensor having an active surface" was invented by Ravi Billa (Foster City, Calif.), Arvin Emadi (Hayward, Calif.) and Hai Tran (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein include an apparatus having a substrate, a sensor over the substrate including an active surface and a sensor bond pad, a molding layer over the substrate and covering sides of the sensor, the molding layer having a lower portion with a first molding height relative to a top surface of the substrate and an upper portion with a second molding height relative to the top surface of the sub...