ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,564, issued on March 25, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor" was invented by Cheng-Yu Hsieh (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a first isolation structure, a visible light detection structure, and an infrared light detection structure. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface in a vertical direction. The first isolation structure is disposed in the semiconductor substrate for defining pixel regions in the semiconductor substrate. The visible light detection structure and th...