US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 25 for "Biological material sensing semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,863, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Biological material sensing semiconductor device" was invented by Chuan-Chi Yan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yueh-Chuan Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Chan Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a semiconductor device for sensing biological material includes: forming a field-effect transistor (FET) on a semiconductor substrate that includes a gate; forming a well within a material disposed over the semiconductor substrate, the well having an opening at a first end and a floor at second end, the well f...