US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 16 for "Semiconductor structure having biosensor and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,346, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure having biosensor and manufacturing method thereof" 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 semiconductor structure includes a sensor, a patterned dielectric layer, and a cover disposed on the patterned dielectric layer. The sensor includes a bio-sensing device and at least one voltage-reference device disposed in proximity to the b...