ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,178, issued on May 6, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Image sensor" was invented by Yuan-Shuo Chang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ching-Chiang Wu (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate, first photodiodes, second photodiodes, an interlayer, a light-guiding structure, and a micro-lens layer. The first photodiodes and the second photodiodes are alternately disposed in the substrate. The area of each of the first photodiodes is less than the area of each of the second photodiodes from a top view. The interlayer is disposed on the sub...