ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,987, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor biosensor" was invented by Yi-Hsing Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jui-Cheng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Jie Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biosensor includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a FET device in the semiconductor layer, an isolation layer over the first surface of the semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer over the isolation layer and the first surface of the semiconductor layer, and a pair of first electrodes and...