US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Image sensor device and methods of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,277, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor device and methods of forming the same" was invented by Feng-Chien Hsieh (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei city, Taiwan), Wei-Li Hu (Tainan city, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan city, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ming Wu (Tainan city, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor device and methods of forming the same are described. In some embodiments, the device includes a substrate, a contact pad structure extending from a contact pad region to a black level correction region, a dielectric layer dispo...