US Patent Issued to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 4 for "Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,843, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LTD. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yi-Hua Chiu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Wei-Ko Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Shih-Liang Ku (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method includes the following operations. A lens layer is formed above a substrate. A patterned hard mask layer is formed on the lens layer. The lens layer is etched to transfer a pattern of the patterned hard mask layer to the lens layer such that a plurality of lenses are defined, wherein the lens are micro-lenses or meta-surface lenses...