US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 20 for "CMOS compatible BioFET" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,675, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"CMOS compatible BioFET" was invented by Alexander Kalnitsky (San Francisco), Yi-Shao Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Kai-Chih Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chia-Hua Chu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Ren Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chun-Wen Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a bio-field effect transistor (BioFET) and a method of fabricating a BioFET device. The method includes forming a BioFET using one or more process steps compatible with or typical to a complementary met...