US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 27 for "Pixel array providing flicker reduction and dynamic range" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,622, issued on May 27, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pixel array providing flicker reduction and dynamic range" was invented by Chun-Lin Fang (Tainan, Taiwan), Ping-Hao Lin (Tainan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel array may include a plurality of pixel regions including a first pixel region and a second pixel region. The pixel array may include a metal grid structure over the plurality of pixel regions. The pixel array may include a light blocking layer. A first portion of the light blocking layer may be over the first pixel region and ...