ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,469, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Image sensors and methods of manufacturing them" was invented by Cheng Ying Ho (Minxiong Township, Taiwan), Kai-Chun Hsu (Yonghe City, Taiwan), Wen-De Wang (Minsyong Township, Taiwan), Cheng-Yu Hsieh (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes photosensitive areas in a first array within a semiconductor substrate. Microlens are disposed over the semiconductor substrate in a second array. Metal shields are disposed between a subset of the microlenses and corres...