US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Dec. 2 for "CMOS image sensor and method for making the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,535, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"CMOS image sensor and method for making the same" was invented by Ming-Hsien Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Weng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Wei Chia (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tse Yu Tu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien Nan Tu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Liang Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CMOS image sensor includes a unit pixel array including a photodiode array, a color filter array, a micro-lens array, and a grid isolation structure laterally separating adja...