US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Integrated circuit providing increased pin access points and method of designing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,185, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit providing increased pin access points and method of designing the same" was invented by Jungho Do (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jaewoo Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Sanghoon Baek (Seoul, South Korea), Jisu Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongyu You (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Minjae Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first cell including a first lower pattern extending in a first direction along a first track in a first wiring layer; and a second cell including a second lo...