US Patent Issued to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 30 for "Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,374, issued on June 30, was assigned to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Shih-Ping Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Peng-Tse Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Ping Chung (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate, a global shutter component, a ground doped region, and a light-shielding layer. The substrate at least has a pixel array region and a border region adjacent to each other. The global shutter component is located on the pixel array region, and the global shutter component includes a storage no...