Patent ID: 11942496
Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS PTE LTD
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A digital image sensor package, comprising:
an image sensor substrate carrying photodiodes; and
a glass covering having a bottom surface, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a sidewall delimiting a perimeter edge of the glass covering, wherein the glass covering is monolithic and overlies all of the photodiodes;
wherein a surface area of the top surface of the glass covering is greater than a surface area of the bottom surface of the glass covering such that the sidewall is anti-perpendicular to one or both of the top and bottom surfaces of the glass; and
wherein a surface area of a top surface of the image sensor substrate is greater than the surface area of the bottom surface of the glass covering.