ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,713, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor device" was invented by Chen-Hsiang Hung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chung-Chuan Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Hsin Chu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Ping Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a photodiode formed in a substrate; and at least one transistor having a gate feature that comprises a first portion and a second portion coupled to an end of the first portion, the first portion disposed above and extending along a major surface of the substrate and the second portion extendin...