US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 20 for "Photosensing pixel, image sensor and method of fabricating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,558, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photosensing pixel, image sensor and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Sin-Yao Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Feng-Chi Hung (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Chen-Hsien Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Tzu-Hsuan Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yan-Chih Lu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensing pixel includes a substrate, a photosensing region, a floating diffusion region, a transfer gate and a control electrode. The photosensing region is located within the substrate. The floating diffusion region is located within the subs...