US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 22 for "Pixel with dual-PD layout" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,477, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pixel with dual-PD layout" was invented by Chi-Hsien Chung (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tzu-Jui Wang (Fengshan City, Taiwan), Chia-Chi Hsiao (Tianzhong Township, Taiwan), Chen-Jong Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Dun-Nian Yaung (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an image sensor comprising a pixel with a dual-PD layout for enhanced scaling down. The pixel spans a first integrated circuit (IC) die and a second IC die stacked with the first IC die. The pix...