US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 9 for "Optical biosensor device with optical signal enhancement structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,396, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical biosensor device with optical signal enhancement structure" was invented by Yi-Hsien Chang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Shih-Fen Huang (Jhubei, Taiwan), Chun-Ren Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Fu-Chun Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Ching-Hui Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip including a semiconductor layer and a photodetector disposed along the semiconductor layer. A color filter is over the photodetector. A micro-lens is over the color filter. A dielectric structure comp...