US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 7 for "Image sensor devices and methods of formation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,486, issued on July 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor devices and methods of formation" was invented by Feng-Chien Hsieh (Pingtung City, Taiwan), Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Li Hu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ming Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor device may include a pixel sensor array that includes a plurality of pixel sensors. A plurality of transistors may be electrically connected with a back end of line (BEOL) region of the image sensor device. The image sensor device may further...