US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 16 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,619, issued on June 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" was invented by Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia Chun-Wei (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chou (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 includes a photosensitive sensor, a floating diffusion node, a reset transistor, and a source follower transistor. The reset transistor comprises a first source/drain coupled to the floating diffusion node and a second source/drain coupled to a first voltage source. The so...