ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,871, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor with scattering structure" was invented by Cheng Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Keng-Yu Chou (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Chieh Chiang (Yuanlin Township, Taiwan), Wen-Hau Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Kung Chang (Zhudong Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip including a substrate and a pixel. The pixel includes a photodetector. The photodetector is in the substrate. The integrated chip further includes a first inner trench iso...