ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,463, issued on June 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor for time-of-flight system" was invented by Yeh-Hsun Fang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Zhi-Wei Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Hsin Chu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor for a Time-of-Flight imaging system is disclosed that includes at least one primary sensor having a photodetector that includes a photovoltaic junction formed at least partially in a germanium-containing material that includes germanium at an atomic percentage greater than 50%, and at least one secondary sensor having a p...