US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 18 for "Semiconductor device, semiconductor image sensor, and method of manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,217, issued on March 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device, semiconductor image sensor, and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Li-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Lin Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Ling Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ping-Hao Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Ming Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first type of light sensing units, where each instance of the first type of light sensing units is operable to receive a first amount of radiation; and a second type...