US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Device and method for detecting miniature targets in a fluid sample" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,854, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device and method for detecting miniature targets in a fluid sample" was invented by Wei Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Katherine H. Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Wen Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ke-Wei Su (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate has a first side and a second side vertically opposite to the first side. A sensing transistor is disposed at least in part over the first side of the substrate. A plurality of voltage reference transistors is disposed at least in pa...