ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,823, issued on April 7, was assigned to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor structure" was invented by Ju-Sheng Lu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Chan Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor structure including a substrate, a first pixel structure, a second pixel structure, a dielectric layer, and a conductive layer stack is provided. The first pixel structure includes a first light sensing device. The second pixel structure includes a second light sensing device. The conductive layer stack includes conductive layers. T...