ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,875, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Biosensor" was invented by Wei Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Katherine H Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Wen Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ke-Wei Su (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biosensor including a first sensor, a second sensor, a patterned dielectric layer and a cover is provided. The first sensor includes a first voltage-reference device and a first bio-sensing device. The second sensor is disposed adjacent to the first sensor, the second sensor includes a second voltage-refe...