US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 4 for "Semiconductor image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,165, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor image sensor and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Min-Feng Kao (Chiayi, Taiwan), Dun-Nian Yaung (Taipei, Taiwan), Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Hsing-Chih Lin (Tainan, Taiwan) and Che-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a plurality of pixel sensors disposed in the substrate, a sensor isolation feature disposed in the substrate defining an active region, and a di...