US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Semiconductor device with bioFET and biometric sensors" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,745, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with bioFET and biometric sensors" was invented by Ching-Hui Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Chun-Ren Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Shih-Fen Huang (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Fu-Chun Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The structure of a semiconductor device with an array of bioFET sensors, a biometric fingerprint sensor, and a temperature sensor and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. A method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a gate electrode on a first side o...