US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Nov. 11 for "Semiconductor device with biofet and biometric sensors" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,324, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with biofet and biometric sensors" was invented by Ching-Hui Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Chun-Ren Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Fen Huang (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Fu-Chun Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The structure of a semiconductor device with an array of bioFET sensors, a biometric fingerprint sensor, and a temperature sensor and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. A method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a gate electrode on a first side of...