ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,480, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TAIWAN-ASIA SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Optical sensing device" was invented by Edgar Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Jia-En Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A optical sensing device includes a substrate, an optical acting area and a filter layer. The optical acting area is disposed on the substrate. The filter layer covers the optical acting area and selectively allows only a light beam with a specific wavelength to pass through and be received by the optical acting area while blocking the light beams with other wavelengths. Each of the two sides of the sub...