ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,743, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor image-sensing structure having electro-optical modulator and image sensor device having the same" was invented by Wei-Lin Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chou (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor image-sensing structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a front side and a back side, a photo-sensing element disposed in the semiconductor substrate, a color filter disposed over the back side of the semiconductor substrate, and an elec...