US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING on April 22 for "Integrated circuit device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,591, issued on April 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Huaixin Xian (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yang Zhou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Qingchao Meng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes at least one circuit having an input and an output, and an output connector electrically coupled to the output. The circuit further includes a plurality of transistors electrically coupled with each other between the input and the output. The output is in a first metal laye...