US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 19 for "Integration of solar cell and image sensor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,285, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integration of solar cell and image sensor" was invented by Feng-Chien Hsieh (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Ping Kuan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ming Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit (IC) structure with a solar cell and an image sensor array. An integrated structure according to the present disclosure includes a first substrate including a plurality of photodiodes, an interconnect structure d...