US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor capacitor for stacked pixel" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,898, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor capacitor for stacked pixel" was invented by Shen-Hui Hong (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Chuang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Feng-Chi Hung (Chu-Bei City, Taiwan) and Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an image sensor including a first integrated circuit (IC) die stacked with a second IC die. The first IC die includes a plurality of photodetectors disposed within a first substrate. The second IC die includes a plurality of...