US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 17 for "Image-sensor structure and method of making thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,423, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image-sensor structure and method of making thereof" was invented by Cheng Ying Ho (Minxiong Township, Taiwan), Kai-Chun Hsu (Yonghe, Taiwan), Wen-De Wang (Minsyong Township, Taiwan), Wen-I Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Yu Hsieh (Tainan, Taiwan), Hung Yu Wang (Keelung, Taiwan), Yuh Ruey Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit (IC) image sensor having an array of pixel elements. Each pixel element of the array includes a semicond...