US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 29 for "Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,794, issued on April 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Chung-Lei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Clark Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Sheng Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chien-Li Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a storage device, where the storage device includes a memory element, a first dielectric layer and a light shielding element. The memory element includes a storage node and a storage transistor gate, where the storage transistor gate is located over the storage node. The first dielectric ...