ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,460, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor and method of forming the same" was invented by Wei-Lung Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Shin-Hong Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan), Huang-Jen Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Chang (Hukou Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ching-Chiang Wu (Zhubei, Taiwan), Han-Lin Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jen Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate, an isolation structure on the substrate, a photoelectric conversion layer, a transparent electrode layer, an encapsulation layer,...