US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Image sensor device and methods of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,028, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor device and methods of forming the same" was invented by Yeh-Hsun Fang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chiao-Chi Wang (Hsiang, Taiwan), Chung-Chuan Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Ping Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a plurality of openings extending into a substrate from a front surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a first semiconductor material. Each of the plurality of openings has a curve-based bottom surface. The method includes filling the plurality of openings with a s...