US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 2 for "Thin-film transistors for detecting miniature targets" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,177, issued on June 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Thin-film transistors for detecting miniature targets" was invented by Wei Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chung-Liang Cheng (Changhua County, Taiwan), Pei-Wen Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ke-Wei Su (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect structure is disposed over a semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes a plurality of interconnect layers. A first thin-film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT are disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The fir...