ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,049, issued on July 14, was assigned to LEXTAR ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Photosensitive device" was invented by Pei-Fang Tsou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yu-Jing Fang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Ping Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yen-Chih Chou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chun-Heng Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Hsiao Heng Ho (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensitive device is provided. The photosensitive device includes a sensing stack, an anti-reflective layer, an optical filter, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The sensing stack includes a first semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semi...