US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 15 for "Photosensing pixel including self-aligned light shielding layer" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,459, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Photosensing pixel including self-aligned light shielding layer" was invented by Yueh-Chuan Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Chan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for forming a light-shielding layer to block irradiation of light onto a light-sensitive storage region. The light-sensitive storage region is formed in a semiconductor substrate to store electric charges. A storage gate feature is formed over the light-sensitive storage region, and includes a...