ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,162, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Piezoelectric biosensor and related method of formation" was invented by Ching-Hui Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Chun-Ren Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Shih-Fen Huang (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Fu-Chun Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a piezoelectric biosensor is provided. The piezoelectric biosensor includes a semiconductor substrate. A first electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. A piezoelectric structure is disposed on the first electrode. A second electrode is disposed on the piezoelect...