ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,831, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Semiconductor device having interleaved clock gate blocks and decoupling capacitor blocks and method of operating same" was invented by Liu Han (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xin Yong Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Qingchao Meng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Huaixin Xian (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jing Ding (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having a cell region, the cell region including a first set of one or more first blocks and a second set ...