ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,098, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).
"Image sensor manufacturing method" was invented by Pierre Bar (Grenoble, France) and Jean Luc Huguenin (Rives, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for manufacturing an image sensor includes forming of a plurality of microlenses at a first resin layer, forming a mask on top of and in contact with the first resin layer, the mask comprising a second resin; and chemical plasma etching the first resin layer through the mask."
The patent was filed on July 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/815,522.
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