US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on April 29 for "Transistors having increased effective channel width" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,924, issued on April 29, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transistors having increased effective channel width" was invented by Chiao-Ti Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sing-Chung Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yuanwei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Bill Phan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A floating diffusion is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. A transfer transistor is configured for coupling the photodiode to the floating diffu...