US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 16 for "Image sensor structure and method for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,350, issued on June 16, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor structure and method for forming the same" was invented by Po Chun Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ping-Hao Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Wei-Lin Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kun-Hui Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of image sensing elements, a reflective element, and a high-k dielectric structure. The image sensing elements are in the semiconductor substrate. The reflective element ...