ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,043, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor device" was invented by Feng-Chien Hsieh (Pingtung, Taiwan), Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Li Hu (Tainan, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ying-Hao Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor device includes a substrate, photosensitive pixels, an interconnect structure, a dielectric layer, and a light blocking element. The photosensitive pixels are in the substrate. The interconnect structure is over a first side of the substrate. The dielectric layer is over a second side of th...