US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 25 for "Fingerprint sensor in InFO structure and formation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,669, issued on March 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Fingerprint sensor in InFO structure and formation method" was invented by Chih-Hua Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yu-Feng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Shi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hao-Yi Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chih Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package includes a sensor die, and an encapsulating material encapsulating the sensor die therein. A top surface of the encapsulating material is substantially coplanar with or higher than a top surface of the sensor die. A plurality...