ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,782, issued on April 29, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).
"Cell layouts" was invented by Juhan Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sangmoon J. Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Mahbub Rashed (Cupertino, Calif.) and Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to cell layouts in semiconductor structures and methods of manufacture. A structure includes: a plurality of abutting cells each of which include transistors with gate structures having diffusion regions; a contact spanning across abutting cells of the plurality of abutting...