ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,641, issued on April 21, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LTD. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
"Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Cheng-Hsuan Lin (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Kuang-Yu Huang (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Zong-Ru Tu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Huang-Jen Chen (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan) and Han-Lin Wu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a first color filter disposed on a first photodiode, a first grid, and a first micro lens disposed on the first color filter and the first grid. The first grid includes a first main portion and a first shielding portion extende...