ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,473, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TAIWAN-ASIA SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Light sensing element and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yang-Ting Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and You-Hsien Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a manufacturing method for a light sensing element. The method includes the following steps: providing an epitaxy; performing a device process to form a semiconductor structure on the epitaxy, wherein the semiconductor structure includes a light absorbing layer and a plurality of sidewalls; performing a wet etching process to form ...