US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 28 for "Semiconductor sensor and methods thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,572, issued on July 28, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor sensor and methods thereof" was invented by Yin-Kai Liao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Kuan-Chieh Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Hung (Changhua County, Taiwan), Yi-Shin Chu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hsiang-Lin Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Sin-Yi Jiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and structure providing an optical sensor having an optimized Ge-Si interface includes providing a substrate having a pixel region and a logic region. In some embodime...